Laura Donnelly Quotes
My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.
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I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
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I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.
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Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.
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When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.
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My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.
