Lauren Lapkus Quotes
I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
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There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.
