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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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
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But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.
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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.
