Lauren Worsham Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
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I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell children that the world doesn't really care about you. You have to fight to be heard.
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I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
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A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it.
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Growing up, the dream was to be on Broadway. I always loved theater.
