Lisa Ling Quotes
I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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I grew up on films.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
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A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.
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I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
