Piper Laurie Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.
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And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
