Lisa Unger Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I'm a proud family man.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Hear the other side.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Writers are so important.
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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
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Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.
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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
