Lisa Whelchel Quotes
When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
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That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?
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The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.
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I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.
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Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
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When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
