Lisa See Quotes
For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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I write novels and other things.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
