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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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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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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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
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Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
