Lisa See Quotes

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

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• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Never
  • Someone

• I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Death
  • You
  • Imagine

• We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • American
  • Technology
  • China

• I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Work
  • Want
  • Change

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Catching
  • Solid
  • Outfield

• Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Confidence
  • Doubt
  • Balance

• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I love myself and I am a good person.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Person

• How sweet it is!

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • How

• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Enough
  • Within
  • Dinosaurs

• I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

  

  Barry Williams
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Black

• I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Me
  • Focus

• The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Insurance
  • Boxes
  • Box

• Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

  

  John Madden
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• Long before I realized I was exploring something, that I was looking to develop something in myself, I was just naturally drawn to movies and entertainment and stories that had a core element of spiritual discovery.

  

  Barnet Bain
  • Discovery
  • Entertainment
  • Develop

• I've been blessed by God to be able to perform.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • God
  • Blessed

• If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.

  

  Jared Sparks
  • Man
  • Title
  • Charged

• I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

  

  Lisa See