Lisa See Quotes
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
Rachel Roy -
I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
Imelda May -
I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
Gary Ross -
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
Garry Trudeau -
Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
Flavor Flav -
As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
Dan O'Brien -
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart Tolle -
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
Fannie Flagg
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
Larry Kramer -
I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
Oliver Reed -
I had an amazing childhood.
Abbie Cornish -
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J. B. Priestley -
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
Eddie Slovik -
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
Ralph Baer
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By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Malin Akerman -
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
Matthew Henry -
And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
Norman Vincent Peale -
I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
Olga Kurylenko -
You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.
Lisa See