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Laurie Graham Quotes

My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.

Laurie Graham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Beautiful Child Parents Me

'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.

John Gregory Dunne

Work Time Place Years Glorious

It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary.

Melvyn Bragg

Time Back Play Done Fair Difficult

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

Robert Smith

Me Done Years Come Performing Even

If I ever feel a sense of anxiety, it's usually over things that I have some control over, or I'm anxious about me making the right decision.

Stan Van Gundy

Decision Me Control Feel Anxiety

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

Robert Fritz

Yourself Choices Compromise You Want

My acting teacher, Earle Gister. He had a genius for knowing exactly where every one of us were in our development as actors. He always knew precisely what to say or suggest to unlock a moment. He somehow always made it seem like it was our idea. I call him 'The Invisible Hand.'

Michael Potts

Teacher Moment Genius Acting Hand

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Loretta Lynch

Choices You Accept Things Define

The film you know as 'Super Troopers' is a film that almost didn't happen. The script was originally commissioned and developed by Miramax, but when it failed to get a green light, Harvey Weinstein was kind enough to give it back to us so we could make it elsewhere.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Light Green Enough You Back Know

As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.

Jasmila Zbanic

Child Neighbors Torture Used Sell

Aw man, I spend it pretty much as fast as I make it. If I want something, I don't wait around and plan or nothing. I just go out and get it.

Donald Cerrone

Man Wait Plan Fast Want Nothing

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

Clayton M. Christensen

Family God Me Book Bible Earth

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

Allison Mack

Learning Fashion Understanding I Can