Lisa See Quotes
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
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I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
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A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
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There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
