Lisa See Quotes
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.Lisa See
Quotes to Explore
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
Aaron Ciechanover -
Anna Wintour has guided me.
Natalie Massenet -
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye -
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
L'Wren Scott -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
Vanessa Paradis
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
Aaron Ciechanover -
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
Adam McKay -
Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia Clarkson -
I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern -
They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
Ed Asner
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
J. B. Pritzker -
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Xander Berkeley -
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
J. K. Simmons -
I had been writing professionally since 1988.
Laura Hillenbrand -
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Barbara Walters -
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
Bebe Rexha
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
Kate Upton -
'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
Yehuda Berg -
The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
Nancy Duarte -
Making things easy is hard.
Ted Nelson -
I would like to see a little more rationality in the schedule planning of the end-users.
Bill Hayden -
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
Lisa See