Lisa Edelstein Quotes
Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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Only artists without talent try to shock people.
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The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
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This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
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It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
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Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?
