Lucy Punch Quotes
I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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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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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters don't know about, and that their parents don't like. It's something they can have as their own.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.
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I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.
