Laurie Metcalf Quotes
Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.Laurie Metcalf
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen -
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
Eberhard Weber -
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing -
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume -
I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
Halima Aden -
Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
Jackie Evancho
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I always wanted pink hair.
Rachel McAdams -
I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
Wale -
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan -
I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
Zac Efron -
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
Victoria Jackson
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
G. Willow Wilson -
I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
R. Kelly -
The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
Vincent Bugliosi -
In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
Francesca Annis -
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
Fantasia Barrino -
I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
Barry Sternlicht
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In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
Ben Bernanke -
The fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom. This life is one great object lesson to practice on the principles of immortality and eternal life. Man grows with his higher aims. Let naught that is unholy enter here.
Karl G. Maeser -
You can’t tell real from a rutabaga.
Orson Scott Card -
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
Bryan Adams -
Producing is figuring out how to make each character have a distinct voice, how to make the story twist and turn - that's the biggest challenge.
Lauren Shuler Donner -
Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.
Laurie Metcalf