Lauren Graham Quotes
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.
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I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the 'Rogue One' set, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And she's so tiny, and elegant, and she's just so small. Everyone's so much smaller than they seem.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.
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I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
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The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's.
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I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks.
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My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.
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My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.
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When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.
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But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
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When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.
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Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it's not. Some people really only read headlines.
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Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.
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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.
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During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
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I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.
