Laura Linney Quotes
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I try to just take in every moment of being alive.
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Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.
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Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.
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I have many ideas for lights. I will paint only lights at night. on the twinkling city-lights
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
