Laura Linney Quotes
I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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In my opinion, the Warren Commission's investigation has to be considered the most comprehensive investigation of a crime in history.
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I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
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My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.
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To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer.
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I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
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I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
