If you're really nice to the waiter, ... he'll tell you where they sat when they wrote the song.
LAURA KIDDER There's a little bit of a rivalry about which sight has the best view. So see them both and make up ...
LAURA KIDDER I was down there a year ago and it felt so much better.
LAURA KIDDER They seem to be making some progress battling crime. Just be aware. Don't draw attention to yourself...
LAURA KIDDER With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you...
MARGOT KIDDER There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance wit...
MARGOT KIDDER We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I...
MARGOT KIDDER You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ...
TRACY KIDDER Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids wer...
MARGOT KIDDER Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He ...
TRACY KIDDER They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person ...
MARGOT KIDDER I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have ...
MARGOT KIDDER Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People wer...
MARGOT KIDDER You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn...
MARGOT KIDDER I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clea...
TRACY KIDDER You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don'...
TRACY KIDDER The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social St...
TRACY KIDDER I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out bas...
MARGOT KIDDER It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in M...
MARGOT KIDDER In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you ...
TRACY KIDDER I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also ...
TRACY KIDDER Right now I'm really researching for a good non-fiction story... I doubt that I'll ever find a subje...
TRACY KIDDER People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
TRACY KIDDER I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
MARGOT KIDDER I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic...
MARGOT KIDDER I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
TRACY KIDDER At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a...
TRACY KIDDER At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story f...
TRACY KIDDER My Detachment: A Memoir
TRACY KIDDER I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear ab...
TRACY KIDDER Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
TRACY KIDDER It means I can vote against anyone and everyone in elected office that in any way supported the Bush...
MARGOT KIDDER Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.
TRACY KIDDER Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I...
MARGOT KIDDER Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
TRACY KIDDER I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A R...
MARGOT KIDDER I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
MARGOT KIDDER Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press c...
MARGOT KIDDER In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you ...
TRACY KIDDER Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special pla...
TRACY KIDDER The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.
TRACY KIDDER The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
MARGOT KIDDER I'm a little suspicious of the great, overarching view. It always leaves something out.
TRACY KIDDER God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room...
MARGOT KIDDER We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and...
MARGOT KIDDER I just think that Erica's work is absolutely fabulous and psychologically more nuanced than what we ...
MARGOT KIDDER I had three weddings. That's enough.
MARGOT KIDDER For me, the solution was finally getting away from psychiatric drugs and actually healing my body so...
MARGOT KIDDER When I was crazy, I didn't think of anything but being crazy,
MARGOT KIDDER May you see the light through the darkness, wisdom through the pain and strength through the sufferi...
RACHEL K. KIDDER Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders ...
LAURA I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Doing the right thing has power.
LAURA LINNEY When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know...
LAURA ZISKIN I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
LAURA ZISKIN You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
LAURA ZISKIN For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
LAURA ZISKIN What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and...
LAURA ZISKIN I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I want...
LAURA ZISKIN I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
LAURA WILKINSON The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive...
LAURA WILKINSON There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that...
LAURA WILKINSON I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
LAURA WILKINSON I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is...
LAURA WILKINSON I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I fe...
LAURA WILKINSON I love overcoming challenges and fear.
LAURA WILKINSON There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
LAURA WILKINSON Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it ...
LAURA WILKINSON There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t...
LAURA WASSER Many states favor joint custody.
LAURA WASSER Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
LAURA WASSER For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, becau...
LAURA WASSER Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going t...
LAURA WASSER A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, ...
LAURA WASSER I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions abou...
LAURA WASSER Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake a...
LAURA WASSER Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do reali...
LAURA WASSER I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the r...
LAURA WASSER Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorc...
LAURA WASSER I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the as...
LAURA WASSER One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husb...
LAURA WASSER To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know o...
LAURA WASSER Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and ...
LAURA WASSER The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that you...
LAURA WASSER If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really s...
LAURA WASSER Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way....
LAURA WASSER My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law ...
LAURA WASSER Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your ...
LAURA WASSER Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that k...
LAURA WASSER It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going ...
LAURA WADE I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport...
LAURA WADE I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit...
LAURA WADE Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou...
LAURA WADE It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
LAURA WADE Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've j...
LAURA WADE 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bas...
LAURA WADE I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting...
LAURA WADE Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
LAURA WADE And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written...
LAURA WADE In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ...
LAURA WADE I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
LAURA WADE I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the op...
LAURA WADE I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever se...
LAURA WADE I don't like writing with real people in mind.
LAURA WADE I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like...
LAURA WADE It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
LAURA WADE Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's ...
LAURA WADE If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ...
LAURA WADE Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become...
LAURA WADE A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put...
LAURA WADE I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima...
LAURA WADE I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ...
LAURA WADE I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
LAURA WADE Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so muc...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genr...
LAURA VANDERVOORT I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
LAURA VANDERVOORT I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is complete...
LAURA VANDERVOORT A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in min...
LAURA VANDERVOORT Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
LAURA TROTT I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to...
LAURA TROTT I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall...
LAURA TROTT Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
LAURA TROTT For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad so...
LAURA TROTT Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certa...
LAURA TROTT When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if...
LAURA TROTT The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of ...
LAURA TROTT My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose c...
LAURA TROTT I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
LAURA TROTT I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium ...
LAURA TROTT It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly si...
LAURA TROTT I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrasse...
LAURA TROTT It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think w...
LAURA TROTT I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and no...
LAURA TROTT I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it...
LAURA TROTT Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I ...
LAURA TROTT I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe...
LAURA TROTT I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to t...
LAURA TROTT I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everyt...
LAURA TROTT People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of y...
LAURA TROTT For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outsi...
LAURA TROTT You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just we...
LAURA SPENCER Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.
LAURA SPENCER When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well tha...
LAURA SPENCER I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classe...
LAURA SPENCER Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I climb mountains.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the ha...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with ...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I love revenge.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you s...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its ow...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to...
LAURA ROBSON I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to...
LAURA ROBSON If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f...
LAURA ROBSON I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre...
LAURA ROBSON Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
LAURA ROBSON If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha...
LAURA ROBSON I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi...
LAURA ROBSON There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
LAURA ROBSON Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
LAURA RIDING If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo...
LAURA RIDING I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which...
LAURA RIDING The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn...
LAURA RIDING I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi...
LAURA RIDING To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...
LAURA RIDING Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...
LAURA RIDING We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our...
LAURA RIDING I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a...
LAURA RICKETTS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ...
LAURA RICKETTS When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
LAURA RICKETTS We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
LAURA RICKETTS I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I...
LAURA RAMSEY I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
LAURA RAMSEY The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.
LAURA RAMSEY When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much k...
LAURA RAMSEY You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
LAURA PREPON Free love sounds great.
LAURA PREPON