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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. ↗

— Laura Linney

#fight #instinctive #life #relationships #threatened

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. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cannot #eat #i #just #know

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#i #interesting #thrive #times

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. ↗

— Laura Linney

#certain #certain things #condition #different #enjoy

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. ↗

— Laura Linney

#dread #i #i think #idea #inconceivable

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! ↗

— Laura Linney

#credit #father #give #had #him

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father. ↗

— Laura Linney

#father #i #parents #spend #weekends

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ↗