Lisa Tuttle Quotes
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.
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You can only understand the present age when it is past.
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I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.
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What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.
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You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
