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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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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I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.
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A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
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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.
