Laurie Metcalf Quotes
I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.
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I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
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I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.
