Lisa Morton Quotes
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.
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The success definitely shocked me a little, I can’t believe how people gravitated to it. It’s been an amazing record, I definitely didn’t think that it was going to get to the level that it got, but I’m happy that it resonated.
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
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No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.
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My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
Garry Kasparov -
It was fun in its own way, but I think 'Dahmer' was ultimately one of the most rewarding experiences of my life and my career.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.