Laura Linney Quotes
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.
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When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.
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I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
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I love working in the theater.
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I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
