Lisa See Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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My father was a lawyer.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Love is more than one thing.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
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I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.
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Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
