Laurie Metcalf Quotes
I watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
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I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
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I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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Let me say it again. I don't believe in black majority rule ever in Rhodesia-not in a thousand years. I repeat that I believe in blacks and whites working together. If one day it is white and the next day it is black, I believe we have failed and it will be a disaster for Rhodesia.
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
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Whenever the truth threatens, he hides behind a thought.
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
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Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.
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I watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be.
