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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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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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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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.
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My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.
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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.
