Laura Benanti Quotes
If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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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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On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
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I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.
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I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
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If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.
