Lisa Kleypas Quotes
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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I don't use labels a lot.
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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I hope that in 50 years I can look back and say I made my most fervent efforts to provide visibility for the unseen.
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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester. You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women’s cosmic power.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
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That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.
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I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.
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Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.
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When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.
