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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My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.
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I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.
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It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
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I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.
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I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.
