#out

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. ↗

— Laura Linney

#always #book #con #i #instead

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. ↗

— Laura Linney

#about #am #because #go #i

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 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 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. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #death #even #evolved #grandmother

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes. ↗

— Laura Linney

#eyes #film #forth #hard #joy

I've always been interested in the outsider. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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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. ↗

— Laura Linney

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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage. ↗

— Laura Linney

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