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Laura Linney Quotes

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

Laura Linney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1964

Topics

Character Pain School American You

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Jimmy Smits

Community College Help Trying Labor

All writing is propaganda for the self.

Jill Soloway

Writing Self Propaganda

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

John Darnielle

Work Time Creative Value People Me

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

Jeffrey Sachs

Fun Wait End You Economy Destroyed

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

John Perry Barlow

Relationship Performance Musicians

I was a little late in the game for Twitter and Facebook and everything because I thought, 'Oh, I don't know. I just don't have time.'

Stacy Keibler

Time Game Thought Late Know Little

Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my apartment.

Simon Rich

Work Help I Can Write Leave Get

You can wake up every day and make today better than the last.

Tommy Lasorda

Today Day Wake Up Better You Up

People are so sick of these Twitter tirades. They want leaders they can be proud of.

Tom Perez

People Sick Proud Want Leaders

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Rita Mae Brown

Decision Wrong Even Any Follows

When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.

Rod Rosenstein

Silence Information Open Anything

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Michael Medved

Business Spiritual Thinking Problem