Laura Donnelly Quotes
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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You've got to be realistic.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.
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The black snow that runs from the rooftops;
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Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
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I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
