Piper Laurie Quotes
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
Quotes to Explore
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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.
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There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
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The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman - a matter of millimetres.
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What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.
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There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.
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Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
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Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.
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In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
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I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
