Lisa See Quotes
Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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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 think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.
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My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
