Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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We just here to do our job.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.
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There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
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I love Harley Quinn. I do. I just love it.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills
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Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
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While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.
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It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when 'Pac did 'Juice,' he was young - probably like 21, 22 - something like that. And that's my favorite actor. I know it might be weird to say, but he was talented on screen, and that's who I studied.
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I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
