Lisa Unger Quotes
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.
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If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
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Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.
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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
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In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
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America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
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Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
