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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We shred every day.
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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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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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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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Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes.
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I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.
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I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.
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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.
