Laurie Metcalf Quotes
I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
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The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.
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Quand une chose a été dite et bien dite, n'ayez aucun scrupule, prenez-la, copiez.
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The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.
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Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.
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We go to battle against the plutocratic and reactionary democracies of the west… This gigantic struggle is nothing other than a phase in the logical development of our revolution; it is the struggle of peoples that are poor but rich in workers against the exploiters who hold on ferociously to the monopoly off all the riches and all the gold of the earth…
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I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.
