Laurie Metcalf Quotes
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
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The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.
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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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If there’s something that I’ve learned in 4,000 years… it’s patience.
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When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
