Laura Linney Quotes

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• To be too knowing is a downfall.
• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word,
• But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as…
• I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
• 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…
• I don't consider myself a celebrity, and I don't consider myself a star.
• We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten…
• I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
• My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on…
• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
• 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.
• Doing the right thing has power.
• People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
• 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,…
• 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…
• A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
• 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…
• Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way…
• I'm very hard on my bags because I tend to carry a lot of stuff with me.

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