Hugh Laurie Quotes

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Hugh Laurie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 11, 1959

Topics

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I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.

Jesse Williams

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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

John Green

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I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

Stephen Mangan

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Verbal slip-ups often occur because we say things without knowledge of the subtle implications they carry. Understanding these implications requires social awareness - the ability to pick up on the emotions and experiences of other people.

Travis Bradberry

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I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people.

Lucinda Williams

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I have a wardrobe full of scarves now, just about every color under the sun. My trick is that I always cut them in two, down the middle. They're lighter, thinner, skinnier that way. And because I'm cheap, I get two scarves for the price of one.

Colum McCann

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You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

Bryan Burrough

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The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

Scott Aukerman

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People never cease to amaze me.

Tina Yothers

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We have for many years included a price of carbon in our outlook. We put it in as a cost. Everything gets tested against it.

Rex Tillerson

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In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

Richard D. Zanuck

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We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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