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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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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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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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there.
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A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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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.
