Laura Osnes Quotes
Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
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There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all, I'm the best.
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When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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I'm a musicologist, and I know that this is very rare. As a matter of fact, it's unique in the history of jazz, this group that I'm performing with, this trio. No other trio does these kind of things. I mean, it's an experience you will only hear with this group. It's a one-time experience in life, if you don't come back and hear us again, which would be different anyway.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
