Lisa Edelstein Quotes

By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

Lisa Edelstein

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Think
  • Intelligent
  • I Think

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Adventure

• I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Boring

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Author
  • Election

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Stop
  • Always

• I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • English
  • Understand
  • Learned

• If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Want
  • Me
  • Him

• I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Speed
  • Ball
  • Course

• I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Today

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • Population
  • Germany
  • October

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • Hazards
  • Fullness

• I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Small

• When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.

  

  Anne Fontaine
  • Control
  • Changes
  • Characters

• By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Small