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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What was really great with Eleanor Roosevelt - I mean, of course, we all have this stereotypical, really satirical almost, version of how she speaks. What was really interesting to me was I found various radio and TV appearances of hers, but there was one talk show that I saw her on; she was the only woman, it was all men. They were talking about policy - I think it was after she was First Lady. I think it was more in the U.N. days.
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Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
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What is life without the radiance of love?
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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.
