Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Radio
  • Sell

• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  

  Ed Wood
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Successful

• The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Mad

• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Power
  • Often

• The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Acting
  • Part
  • Hardest

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

  

  Hafez
  • Fortune
  • Wheel
  • Twists

• Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Never
  • Model

• Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Peace

• Well, as soon as he Trump travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease fire, the release of dissidents, an opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends eleven hours testifying in front of a congressional committee, he can talk to me about stamina.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Peace
  • Fire

• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • End
  • Kings
  • France

• When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Life
  • Different
  • School

• When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

  

  Andrew McCutchen
  • Life
  • Way
  • Expectancy

• First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Life
  • Forgive