Laura Carmichael Quotes
There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.
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'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
