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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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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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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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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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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You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.'
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When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.
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A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.
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Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.
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In many campaigns, one candidate or another is asked to answer for comments he or she made in the past. The answer is usually gibberish - 'That was a long time ago,' or 'I was trying to say something else.'
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
