Lisa Edelstein Quotes
My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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I love so many styles of music.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
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Everything matters. Nothing's important.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.
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My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.
