Lisa Kudrow Quotes
I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
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My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
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I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
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I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.
