Lisa Unger Quotes
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
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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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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
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Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
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I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
