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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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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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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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
