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" I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. "
Laura Linney
Just
Day
Gone
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" All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility. "
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" 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. "
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" I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that. "
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" I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. "
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" I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. "
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" I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer. "
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" You have to relish the challenge of television. "
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" I just have to concentrate on doing what I do. "
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" I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red. "
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" I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. "
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" People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. "
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" I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have. "
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" I get cold - really cold - when I travel. "
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" Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships. "
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" I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship. "
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" For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting. "
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" When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. "
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" I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. "
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" I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room. "
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" My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.' "
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You
Script
" I love to work in all sorts of different situations. "
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" What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that. "
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" What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage. "
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" I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy. "
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" I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me! "
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" I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate. "
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" What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. "
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" I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away. "
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