Lisa Edelstein Quotes
If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
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Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
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From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.
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It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.
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I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time.
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If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.
