Laura Hillenbrand Quotes
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
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I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.
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I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
