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" My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.' "
Laura Linney
Call
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" I certainly didn't have a nanny. "
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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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" At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. "
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" It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously. "
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" A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. "
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" Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good. "
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" I don't think you should exploit your own pain. "
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" I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship. "
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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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Want
" I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate. "
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" My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them. "
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" If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child. "
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" I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade! "
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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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Long
" I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away. "
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Still
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" Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. "
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" I just have to concentrate on doing what I do. "
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Just
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" People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. "
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" People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point. "
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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. "
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" A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart. "
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Good Heart
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" I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old. "
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" I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me. "
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" I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. "
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" I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person. "
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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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" 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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" The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. "
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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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