Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

Laurie Halse Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1961

Topics

LifeGreatYouHollywoodWillSales

The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.

John Lewis

FreedomPeopleBlackAmericanWhite

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

Robert Schumann

MusicMyselfCreativeI AmMe

A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible.

Robert Jeffress

ImaginationBibleImmigrantsSay

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

Steve Scalise

LawBreakingExcuseNo Excuse

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Robert Englund

MePlayForgettingStageNightmares

I consider myself to be half-Brazilian and half-German on the pitch.

Roberto Firmino

MyselfConsiderPitch

I think about where I grew up and how I grew up: my dad was making $25,000 a year. Taking a chance wasn't really taking a chance. It was like you were going for something better. To me, there wasn't that much risk involved.

Michael Pena

MeChanceThinkBetterYearYou

I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

Michael Kiwanuka

LoveMusicMeBusyDoingImportant

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Joshua Waitzkin

BusinessMistakesWorldYouLose

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

Debra Granik

CharacterMeStoryThinkYouSeeing

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Britt Ekland

BodyWantListenThingsGiveWants

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

Todd Haynes

InterestingDownBoundariesEra

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