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Lee Siegel Quotes

I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1957

Topics

Writing Book Negative Living Years

I have dogs, and I hike.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

Acting Important Craft Reacting

There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

Love Discipline Eye Think Cinema

I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.

Time Justice Creative School Law

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Work Family Home School Breakfast

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

Depression Start Help Exercise Own

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Family Child Random Mission Choose

When I did 'Young Guns II,' I hung out with Emilio and Kiefer, and I once took a trip with Rob Lowe - we jumped trains.

Christian Slater

Young Out Guns Trip Trains Once

I'm getting to do, like, 11 stadium shows with Kenny Chesney... seriously - that's bucket list.

Seriously Stadium Bucket Like List

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

Love Strength Time Me Baby Thought

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

William Hazlitt

Friend Excellence Self-Love Choose

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

Better Same Give Costs About Then

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