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 knew I had to find my own way of teaching.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan. And what I wanted to do is, because as I was going up and I am this Chinese-American, I wanted to represent Chinese people from the major population centers around the world where there are a lot of Chinese people. And so, I wanted to bring something from each of those places and so it really wasn't a political thing and I hope people saw it that way. I was born here, I was raised in the U.S., and I'm an American first, but also very proud of my heritage.
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Because to write, one must truly suffer.
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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.
