Laura Linney Quotes
What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.
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People that love this form of music have loved it from way back - Sabbath, Zeppelin, the early days.
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I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
