Lisa McMann Quotes
I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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I always like being able to do something I haven't done before.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
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I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
