Lisa Frank Quotes
I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and everything kind of evolved for me.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.
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People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.
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I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.
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I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and everything kind of evolved for me.
