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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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
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The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
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And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
