Laura Linney Quotes

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Laura Linney

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Study
  • Work Hard

• I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Like
  • Priorities
  • Remembered

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Women
  • May
  • Weird

• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Think

• I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Art
  • Business

• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Inspiration
  • Working

• When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Eye

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Country
  • Friends

• Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Perfect

• The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Fear
  • Societies
  • Consisted

• The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

  

  Will Self
  • Past
  • Quality
  • Shadow

• I would say where I feel like I'm struggling the most in learning and giving myself permission to fail is in finding the balance in life. There are different aspects to women: there's the mother, there's the working woman, there's the wife, the friend, the sister, the daughter and so just figuring that all out. I continue to want to try new things and give myself permission to not be great at it.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Giving

• Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Fear
  • Actor
  • Anxiety