Laura Linney Quotes
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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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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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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The central message is still that, as Keynes argued, fiscal policy is the answer to liquidity traps, financial or political. The arguments against fiscal policy in Japan, so far as I understand them are intellectually fallacious; they would receive failing grades in an undergraduate macro exam.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
