Lesley Visser Quotes
What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.
