Laura Kightlinger Quotes
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Let us have peace.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
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Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.
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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
