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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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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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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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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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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No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
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With the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, and iMac, Apple is the most powerful tech company in the world. It's also the No. 1 music retailer in the U.S. and among the top sellers of online movies, too.
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The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.
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The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.
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What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.
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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.
