Lisa Kudrow Quotes
On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.
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Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.
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You practice how you play. I still believe that.
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My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.
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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
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On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.
