Lisa See Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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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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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.
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Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.
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My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
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Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
