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.
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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.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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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?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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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.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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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.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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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.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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You don't grow up naive in Africa.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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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.
