Laurie Metcalf Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.
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If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.
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With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans... no longer makes sense.
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I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it.
