Laurie Metcalf Quotes
I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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A people decides its own destiny.
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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
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Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.
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I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.
