Lisa See Quotes
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.
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Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'
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I love men's wear.
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There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.
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As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.
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So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
