Laraine Day Quotes
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you're dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It's a unique world.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I don't eat red meat.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.
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Listen more than you talk.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
