Lauren Ambrose Quotes
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
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Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.
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I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
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I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
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I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.
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You know what enormous harm we have been dealt by the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Everybody who has read your book, everybody who has seen the reviews are convinced that the potential harm from your 'Life and Fate' would be far more dangerous than that of Doctor Zhivago.
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Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
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HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
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The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
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It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
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Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.
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I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
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What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.
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Harry Hadden-Paton is just a lovely actor and an incredible person.
