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" Working with special needs children is hard. "
Laura Linney
Needs
Working
Children
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" 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. "
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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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" 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 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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Think
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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'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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Father
" 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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" I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy. "
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Whole
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" The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it. "
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Work
Only
Made
" I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. "
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East
Manhattan
Up
" I love to work in all sorts of different situations. "
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Different
Work
Situations
" 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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You
Deep
God
" 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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Ride
Me
Life
" I crave a cone of silence every once in while. "
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Every
Once
Silence
" 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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Talk
People
Parent
" I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. "
Laura Linney
Consider
Celebrity
Myself
" I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. "
Laura Linney
Own
Sexy
Way
" 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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Interesting
Job
Long
" 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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Own
People
Relationship
" 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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Sun
Feel
Just Because
" Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. "
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Actor
You
Just
" I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' "
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Just
Go
Work
" The good thing is that I'm always honest. "
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Always
Good
Thing
" 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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Look
You
Want
" 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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Communication
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Life
" I just have to concentrate on doing what I do. "
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Concentrate
Just
Doing
" Courtroom dramas can be boring. "
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Dramas
Boring
Courtroom
" I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me. "
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Stuff
Lot
" I don't think you should exploit your own pain. "
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Your
You
Should