Lisa Unger Quotes
People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I don't feel closeted.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.
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I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
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Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.
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People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.
