Laura Benanti Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
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What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.
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If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
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I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.
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There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.
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I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.
