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" I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship. "
Laura Linney
Hope
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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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" 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 mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. "
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" My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father. "
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" Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with. "
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" A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart. "
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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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" What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships. "
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" It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. "
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" Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention. "
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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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" If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film. "
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Job
Long
" I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. "
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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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" I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate. "
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" I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long. "
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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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Feel
Just Because
" I love to work in all sorts of different situations. "
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" 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. "
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" My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. "
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" I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. "
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