Lisa See Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Home is most important in the long run.
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Spoiler alert: everyone falls in love & dies!
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You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.
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Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
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My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.
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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
