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Lisa Murkowski Quotes

We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 22, 1957

Topics

Responsibility Walking You Alaska

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Faith Innovation Creativity Talent

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Page Fired Got Off Read Agent

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

Work Good Best People Detail Story

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

Myself Walk Yourself Balance Me You

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

God Self Creation True True Self

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Women Enough Almost Some Praised

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

Work Job Poetry Page Strive Word

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Day Effort Worth Every Day Go Upset

Compliments are very un-British, but when someone pays you one, you should take it.

Someone You Compliments Take Should

I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside.

Anthony Bourdain

Proud Die You Know Sushi Want

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

I Am Writing Start Be Different View

I want all tuition to stop growing.

Stop Growing Want Tuition

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