Laura Linney Quotes
I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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We are not communists.
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I would never do 'Playboy.'
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
