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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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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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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My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
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It's always nice when someone you don't know comes up to you and says a couple nice things about your work. It's always a pleasure.
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The pitcher has to throw a strike sooner or later, so why not hit the pitch you want to hit and not the one he wants you to hit?
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There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
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Hope has more to do with how you feel that human society is going to respond, rather than whether there are solutions.
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Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.
