Lisa Graff Quotes
When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
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The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.
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It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.
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I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
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I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
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When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
