Laura Osnes Quotes
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I would say I'm a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I were to have a story idea, and I decided to write a novel with it instead, I'd have to very consciously de-couple it from gamedom - for example, deliberately add in things that could not be represented in a game scene.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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I'm very happy that Paul Ryan has decided to treat Donald Trump like a Zika mosquito: avoid contact, or you will be infected.
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People complain about Hollywood movies being similar. That goes right down to the fundamental green light process, because the process involves having to compare it to three other movies.
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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.
