Laura Linney Quotes

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

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• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • You
  • Proud
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• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
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• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
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• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Support
  • Innovation

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Parents
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• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Rock
  • Building
  • Climb

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
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• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Long
  • True
  • Know

• I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Been
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  • Seasons

• I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

  

  Jai Rodriguez
  • Community
  • Boy
  • Gay

• Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.

  

  Karl Marx

• I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Long
  • School