Laurie Notaro Quotes
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
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I get so into the moment.
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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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I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
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The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play And only You can see the good in broken things You took my heart of stone, and You made it home And set this prisoner free
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When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.
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I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
