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 couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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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.
