Lisa Unger Quotes
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
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That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.
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Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.
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It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.
