Lisa Gardner Quotes
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
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Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.
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I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
