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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. ↗

— Laura Linney

#being #disgusting #get #happen #human

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! ↗

— Laura Linney

#bad #being #decade #feeling #i

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. ↗

— Laura Linney

#ever #father #grew #i #manhattan

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. ↗

— Laura Linney

#group #i #i feel #instinct #long

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' ↗

— Laura Linney

#go #i #just #matter #say

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. ↗

— Laura Linney

#become #cry #easy #feel #first

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#heart #i #make #touch #want

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ignore #instruments #irrelevant #movements #once

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#cry #experience #feel #go #i

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#i #part #read #really #wanted