Lisi Harrison Quotes
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
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To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.
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I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do.
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I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
