Lisa McMann Quotes

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

Lisa McMann

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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Honest
  • Female
  • Vulnerable

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Money
  • May
  • Girl

• Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • You
  • Look
  • Open

• I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Me
  • Face
  • Helps

• But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Words

• People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • High
  • Fall

• He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Sympathy
  • Him
  • Maternal

• I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Myself
  • More
  • Antisocial

• I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Never
  • Actor
  • Honesty

• I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Think
  • Angry

• Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Now
  • Describe
  • Skating

• I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Kind

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I attempt to surf. I'm not as good as anyone else in the water. I'm more like a beached whale. I just hang out on my board. I can ride, but I get too nervous unless I go with my boyfriend or my trainer. There are too many burly men out there!

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Water

• I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • University
  • Dissertation

• I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reporter

• I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

  

  Bryan Clay
  • Golf
  • Fishing
  • Hiking

• Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Past

• Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Gym
  • Train
  • Hotel

• Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Love
  • Understand
  • Selfish

• I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

  

  Lisa McMann