Lauren Graham Quotes
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.
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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
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The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.
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Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
