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.

Lisa Unger

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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.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• 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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Success
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Boring

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Hard
  • For Him

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• 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.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Travel

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• 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.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

  

  Eric Millegan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friend

• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • America
  • History
  • Thought

• I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Good
  • God
  • Past

• Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Writing

• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Business