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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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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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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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.
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You've got to be realistic.
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I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
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It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.
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Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.
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I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us.
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Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (p. 141)
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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.
