Laura Miller Quotes
If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I like to work with people who want to make films because they are passionate about films and not because they want to sell films and make money. I am not for people who get the most saleable actor and then the most saleable director and sell the film.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
