Lisa Edelstein Quotes
The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
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There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers.
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I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.
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The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?
