Laura Linney Quotes
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Bald is the new black!
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.
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I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, and then I'll just pat it on the back, and that's it. I promise you, I don't use hair spray, I don't go crazy with products. I just wake up, flip it, and boom, I go bowling.
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If the person doesn’t want to be with me I’m going to move on and find somebody else.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
