Lisa Madigan Quotes
Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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They hate whom they fear.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.
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If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
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I've always been a firm believer that you don't have to close one door in order to open another.
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I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I had no idea what kind of book it would be.
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The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
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Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.
