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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

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I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. ↗

— Laura Linney

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I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room. ↗

— Laura Linney

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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

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

— Charles de Lint

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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

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

— Laura Linney

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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship. ↗

— Laura Linney

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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

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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make. ↗

— Laura Linney

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