Lisa See Quotes
I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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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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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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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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We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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If you chance your focus - you will change your life.
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I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.
