Lisa See Quotes
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Actors don't have real value.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
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I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.
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Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
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I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to.
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For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.
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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
