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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
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How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.
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It was strange, I reflected, as we went out into the golden evening of the Byzantine streets, that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one’s life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
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I pray every day and think everybody should.
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You say that money isn't everything, well I'd like to see you live without it.
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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.
