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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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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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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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.
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Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
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I always liked acting in school and drama classes, but when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to be a singer. I didn't want to be a jack of all trades. I wanted to master one.
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
