Laurie Metcalf Quotes
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
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I want people to realize that they can dream big.
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I did every sport under the sun while growing up.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
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Somewhere back at the beginning I was chosen to be Jester, and there is only one Jester at a time in Diaspar. Most people think that is one too many.
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
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I find television to be a bit like a meat grinder. It's like, you have a cow, you put it through a meat grinder, and out comes a hot dog. It's almost unrecognizable.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.
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When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
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Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.
