Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I don't believe in God.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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I'm proud of the lyrics because I take a lot of care in writing them. I try to make it so people will want to go in and get really into the lyrics. I hope there are different corners to them, with lots of levels-without sounding pretentious.
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.
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You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.
