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Laurie Graham Quotes

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

Laurie Graham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: November 25, 1947

Topics

Culture Husband American Early More

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

Joe Morton

Good Me Television Film Get Been

To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.

Jill Stein

Path Citizenship Immigrants Important

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

John Dickerson

Business Politics Do The Right Thing

I'm getting out of acting.

John Corbett

Acting Out Getting

I did a couple of plays at university, badly, where I made friends with Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see someone like him acting, it makes you think there's not much point in doing it yourself.

Robert Rinder

Yourself Think Someone Doing Acting

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

Matt LeBlanc

Work Me Independence Financial Hobby

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

Trey Anastasio

Working Together Experience Together

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Failure Moment Moving On Start You

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Michelle Bachelet

Work Mother Women Today Hope School

I had no boundaries at home, so I had nothing to push against. I only rebelled with clothing when I was 14. I would wear purple Doc Martens and had purple streaks in my hair, dirty jeans, and baggy tops. Very Britpop. Anything that wasn't girly or feminine. My mother hated it.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Mother Home Hair Push Dirty Nothing

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

Juan Williams

Effort Border Immigration Security

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Life Perseverance Success Friend