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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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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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 don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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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 refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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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.
