Lisa See Quotes
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
Quotes to Explore
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
