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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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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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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.
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Endings don't have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there's an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back.
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'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.
