Lisa Madigan Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Good material is good material.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'
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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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Keep yourself extremely busy. As long as you’re doing something you will find your path.
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Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
