Lauren Ambrose Quotes

I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.

Lauren Ambrose

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• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Know
  • Environment

• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Same

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Guy
  • House

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Live
  • Man
  • Food

• There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Country
  • American
  • Free

• I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Play
  • Would
  • Hamlet

• It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Respect
  • Morality
  • Greatest

• I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Appreciation

• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Painting

• I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mistake
  • Values
  • Morals

• Honestly, I've just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don't feel I'm a very good collaborator.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Long

• Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Free
  • Take

• What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Nature
  • Interest
  • Court

• I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I'm comfortable in that!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Unexpected

• Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.

  

  Benjamin Creme
  • Terrorism
  • Injustice
  • Forces

• I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.

  

  Steve Earle
  • People
  • Years
  • Knows

• World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • World
  • Language
  • Students

• I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.

  

  Lauren Ambrose