Laura Benanti Quotes
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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I am just one human being.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
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I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.
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You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
