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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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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We think the 'livestock show' will make it fun for our exhibitors and the public. Costumes will be allowed, but are not required.
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
