Laura Ricketts Quotes
Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
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When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.