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 have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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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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Death always seems to be around me.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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I took opportunities, big or small, to show that I was a constant professional. I feel like the Sam Jackson of network TV drama.
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Things are so much global and Americanised.
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'In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.'
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When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
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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?
