Laura Linney Quotes
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night's sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book.
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Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.
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You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
