Laura Linney Quotes

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Laura Linney

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MeStoryFeelSomeoneEasyYou

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

Jimmy Page

TimeLongHeavenLong TimeWillUp

Lots of people hate my stuff.

Jim Crace

HatePeopleStuffLots

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin

LoveLiveJoyWorldWillWatching

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

Steve Toltz

PeopleMeBookThinkingYouCopy

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Martine McCutcheon

FlyWantFlagBeingOverweightThin

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

Joseph O'Neill

WritingStartThinkYouDownStop

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

Dennis Bergkamp

FootballPeopleMediaSexTopRight

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Arthur Ashe

WorkGoodTennisBeingLaterLot

Both during the elections and as Prime Minister, I have repeatedly and publicly said that I support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

Ariel Sharon

SupportSaidPrimeIsraelElections

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

William Gibson

MyselfMeWorldPotentialBadI Can

Gravity always sucks. It really, really does. It's a big challenge just re-adapting to feeling heavy again, you know? Even my arm feels heavy. My legs feel heavy.

Peggy Whitson

ChallengeFeelYouFeelingKnowBig

If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.

Paula Abdul

WashingtonSeeDecideComeTour

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