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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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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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 drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.
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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my own experience of working and continuing to work as an out gay actor is exactly that - working as an actor and not as a movie star. I don't think the two are the same.
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I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
