Laura Linney Quotes
I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
Quotes to Explore
-
Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
-
To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
-
I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
-
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
-
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
-
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
-
Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
-
Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
-
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
-
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
-
Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
-
I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
-
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
-
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
-
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
-
I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'
-
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
-
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
-
When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
-
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
-
I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
