Laura Lippman Quotes
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
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I am proud of my career.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine just happened to be covering the woman trying to become the first woman president.
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I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
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I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
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I think we're always going to be based in New York. So I would say 50 percent New York and the other 50 percent around the world.
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I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
