Lisa Leslie Quotes
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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I have - and always will - stand up against efforts to limit a woman's right to choose.
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Windows 95 had its 20th anniversary last year, so we got our hands on an old system and showed it to teenagers who were not even alive in 1995. The results were pretty great and also makes you feel quite old.
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When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, 'I am not a writer. I haven't practiced this.' My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that's been YouTube for me forever.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if only for a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.
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It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.
