Laura Linney Quotes
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
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The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
