Laura Osnes Quotes
I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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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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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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I've always been passionate about fashion.
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I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you'll have to ask him about that.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.
