Laurie Notaro Quotes
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
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Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
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I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.
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Honey, I just forgot to duck.
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'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
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Greatness in art is always a by-product.
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It is true: Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
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My parents did not have any interest in music.
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It's great to just reach out and give something to the fans when they're hungry for it.
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Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.
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When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.
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I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
