#up

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 be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. ↗

— Laura Linney

#always #challenged #different #end #explore

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 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 grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. ↗

— Laura Linney

#east side #grew #i #manhattan #side

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

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence. ↗

— Laura Linney

#go #goes #group #icy #lawyer

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

#family #grew #had #handkerchiefs #i

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#parents #problem #put #their #up

Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known. ↗

— Bill Lipinski

#heard #known #live #make #need

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#adequate #benefits #dearly #healthcare #heroes