Lisa See Quotes
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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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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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
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My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.
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I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals and diners, parks, things that we will recognize and experienced ourselves but yet there's this similar kind of uneasiness through all the interactions and all the things that take place. It was unnerving reading the script. I kind of felt nauseous after reading it.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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For years I've kept a list of dream projects.
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Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
