Laura Linney Quotes
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan
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All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
