Piper Laurie Quotes
I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.
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The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
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Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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It is better to watch things then to do them.
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Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
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We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.
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Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
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In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
