Laura Linney Quotes
I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
