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 have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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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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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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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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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
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What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.
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If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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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.
