Lisa Unger Quotes
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?
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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.
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Some people dream of success, others stay awake to achieve it.
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What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."
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Performing is really close to being in studio but performing takes over because being in the studio is two things; the first thing is that it is really beautiful to improvise and jam, but afterwards it becomes hard because it's very rare that a song will come together quickly. Most of the time it's back and forth and trial and error. You start questioning whether the song is good or not. So that can be quite tough.
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I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.
