Lisa See Quotes
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.
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Être un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux.
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My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
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I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang.
