Lauren Graham Quotes
As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I like to discover new things.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.
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We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, certain firemen feel their sense of honour has been meddled with, ... But it's TV -- we choose highly dramatic situations. You know, because Ally McBeal wore short skirts they weren't saying all female lawyers wear short skirts. So there are some mixed feelings among firemen.
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Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
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We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
