Laurie Graham Quotes
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I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
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Money just draws flies.
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There are programs that don't work.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.
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The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.
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I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
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A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.
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Ballet is the fairies' baseball.
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LeBron's probably the best player in the world, so you just have to make it tough for him, make him take tough jump shots and things like that.
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The wheels of publishing never slow down.
