Laura Linney Quotes

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

Laura Linney

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LoveEyesJoyPeopleHardFilm

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

Jermaine Fowler

PeopleMeYouWrongWaySuck

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

Jenny McCarthy

FamilyFunnyFunMomThinkLaugh

Some people think African states cannot be trusted with the cookie jar. But there are absolutely good NGOs who have this feeling of human solidarity and who also recognize that their work can only be supplementary to the government.

Meles Zenawi

WorkGoodGovernmentPeopleThink

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

Robert Scheer

MoneyInterestRaiseMuchProvide

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

Ann Patchett

NatureI AmPeopleThinkThoughtful

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

John Pomfret

DoingJournalismJustStanfordHad

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

Robin Lord Taylor

SchoolEnoughQuitFirstRightOut

Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

Matt Bomer

CharacterThinkYouPlayingRole

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

HateI AmPeopleBadSaidFirst

Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.

Jose Mujica

GovernmentConstitutionMilitaryJust

I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

Chris Cuomo

BelieveJournalismWillI Believe

Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.

Cheryl Hines

GirlCatsMomGoTryOutside

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