Laura Linney Quotes
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
