Laurieann Gibson Quotes
I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
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I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
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Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
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My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.
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I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!
