Lisa Madigan Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 years old - and it has one of the creepiest doll sequences with the clown, and ever since then, I've just been fascinated by dolls.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first.
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Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.
