Laura Linney Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.
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To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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I'd always tried not to worry about the size of the role or the size of the film.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
