Laura Linney Quotes
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
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I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
