Laura Carmichael Quotes
We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.
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I like a good old thriller.
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I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes from inside. It always depended on other people making him feel good about himself, which meant that he was always beholden, continually needing to succeed. He could never stop. There was such a restlessness in him.
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Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.
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I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter's used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
