Laura Linney Quotes

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

Laura Linney

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• I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.

  

  Vince Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Divorce

• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Trust
  • Just

• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Data

• Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Time
  • Habits
  • Uncertainty

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Understanding
  • Decision
  • Fight

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Society

• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Lights

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Find
  • Soccer

• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

  

  Matthew Green
  • Mind

• I don’t really distinguish between Linux and things that are more or less direct descendants of Unix. I think they’re all the same at some level. Often, people ask me, 'Do you feel jealous about Linux being the big thing.' And the answer is no, for the same reason. I think they’re the same.

  

  Dennis Ritchie
  • People

• I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Awesome

• But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight -Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

  

  Clement Clarke Moore
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Night

• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fight