Lisa Unger Quotes

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Lisa Unger

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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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Security
  • Software

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• 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.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Justice
  • Train
  • Late

• 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.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Woman
  • Movies
  • Find

• The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Rude

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• 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!

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • School
  • Learn
  • Drama

• 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?

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Power
  • Movie

• 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.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Government
  • Tax

• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Process

• It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Nothing
  • Sorry

• 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.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Girl

• Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Life
  • Man
  • Woman

• The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.

  

  Jerry West
  • World
  • High
  • Game

• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• Morsy was not only Egypt's democratically elected president, he is now emerging as the Arab world's Nelson Mandela...during Morsy's one-year reign, Egypt enjoyed freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate peacefully, and not a single one of his political opponents were jailed.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Political
  • Freedom

• I asked my father what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

  

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
  • Women
  • Nursing
  • Crimea

• I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Game

• I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

  

  Lisa Unger