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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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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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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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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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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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.
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Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic.
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It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show. I think one of the things that helped its mystique is, it never came out on DVD or video or whatever.
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I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.
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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.
