Laura Osnes Quotes

Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

Laura Osnes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 19, 1985

Topics

ExperienceSongStoryInteresting

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.

Joan Cusack

PoliceLookDownCountryStreet

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

Robert Knepper

WorkLoveHatePeopleMeThought

Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11.

Michael Hayden

MoneyDownNiceMeanRightOwn

People are made up of flaws.

Amanda Seyfried

PeopleFlawsUpMade

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Ron Chernow

StrategyDangerousSoundIndividual

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

Ross Kemp

HomeDayWeekAfghanistanLike

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

MyselfEventsBeingAbleGovern

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

Dougray Scott

NameProjectGetHappensNeeds

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

Cindy Sheehan

PersistencePeopleMeKnowManySan

There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.

Astro Teller

PeopleBetterYouBodyYour Body

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

William O'Neill

WarWorldProblemsAmericaSolution

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

William Graham Sumner

ChildhoodManPracticeNeverEconomy

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