Lisa Vidal Quotes
When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.
Quotes to Explore
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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In drear-nighted December,Too happy, happy tree,Thy branches ne'er rememberTheir green felicity.
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I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
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I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.
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When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.
