Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!
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Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.
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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
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I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
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I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.
