Laurie Metcalf Quotes

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

Laurie Metcalf

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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.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Know
  • Violence
  • Television

• Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Approach
  • Suit
  • Low-Key

• I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Liar

• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Mother
  • You
  • Woman

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Money
  • City
  • Library

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Memories

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Shoes

• 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.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Play
  • Difficult
  • Losing

• Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• 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.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Man
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

  

  Ben Feldman
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Awesome

• 'SNL' has changed my career because it gave it a platform to be seen. And I really feel like the Weekend Update desk is where I am given the opportunity to shine on that show.

  

  Pete Davidson
  • Career
  • Opportunity
  • Weekend

• The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Future

• Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

  

  David Oliver Relin
  • People
  • Live
  • Older

• When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

  

  Laurie Metcalf