Laurie Metcalf Quotes
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
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Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
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Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
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As he brews, so shall he drink.
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The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
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I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.
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All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.
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As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.
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I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
