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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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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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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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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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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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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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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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
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I have been so blessed not only to talk about things that I want to talk about in my industry, but also to have a platform - and people want to hear about it.
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There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.
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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.
