Lisa Kudrow Quotes
You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.
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You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.
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Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
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I've saved every dime I've made in my life.
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You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.
