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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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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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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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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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 don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people.
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Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.
