Laila Robins Quotes
A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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I think it's really important to have good quality drama on TV.
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I discovered when I was young that I was not like everyone else, and that was great, because it's the people who are different who bring about change and new things.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
