Lisa See Quotes
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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Free love sounds great.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
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I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.
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Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don't agree with.
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It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
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The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectarian competition that has torn so many nations apart, and which our separation of church and state has spared us.
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I write what I'm interested in.
