Laurie Metcalf Quotes
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
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The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
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I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
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My preference is not to fight a Mexican.
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The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.
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My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the South - first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham.
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I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.
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Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
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I'm inspired by visual stimulation.
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I don't like working in front of a camera.
