Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Quotes
'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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I never left doo wop.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.
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I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commercial purposes, I think you should give someone a dividend. They make money, then you make money. It should be an investment, whereas I think Kickstarter's true purpose is raising money for things that are in and of themselves justifying.
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My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
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For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
