Laura Linney Quotes
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
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Working with special needs children is hard.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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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.
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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.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
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I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.