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Introverts tend to internalize problems. In other words, we place the source of problems within and blame ourselves. Though introverts may also externalize and see others as the problem, it’s more convenient to keep the problem “in house.” Internalizers tend to be reliable and responsible, but we can also be very hard on ourselves.


Laurie A. Helgoe

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LAURIE LEVENSON We've sweetened them up considerably. They have a lot more sugar and flavor in them than the traditi...
LAURIE STEED When you serve well, everything else follows. Good serving sets the stage and everybody starts servi...
LAURIE NELSON He's our first small dog. He's broadened my horizons, and I just want to broaden his. It's been an a...
LAURIE ALDRICH Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
HUGH LAURIE The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder som...
HUGH LAURIE Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so hug...
LAURIE ANDERSON If your life, or the life of someone you love, is hanging in the balance, of course you would withst...
HUGH LAURIE I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
HUGH LAURIE To drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in and open a door and answer a telephone becomes incredibl...
HUGH LAURIE There's just sort of this assumption that whatever . . .the writers come up with,
HUGH LAURIE The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.
LAURIE NADEL The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famill...
LAURIE COLWIN No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by gen...
LAURIE COLWIN You score three times inside the first 30 (minutes) and the bonus point is there for the grab. We ju...
LAURIE FISHER Maine has the highest rate of childhood asthma in the country. The good news is that Maine is ahead ...
LAURIE STILLMAN I'm not a bigot. I'm not a homophobe. I'm a conscientious parent.
LAURIE TAYLOR I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm n...
PIPER LAURIE All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a ki...
LAURIE LEE When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. A...
LAURIE ANDERSON I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
PIPER LAURIE Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.
HUGH LAURIE I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sit...
HUGH LAURIE Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up a...
HUGH LAURIE The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions.
LAURIE ZOLOTH They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
HUGH LAURIE People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I...
HUGH LAURIE He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to beco...
HUGH LAURIE I am terribly conscious of the fact that the world doesn't need any more actors. There are so many b...
HUGH LAURIE Plainly, if your life is hanging in the balance, the most important thing to you at that moment is g...
HUGH LAURIE I have no problem with Matthew taking that deal, from the figures that I understand the ballpark to ...
LAURIE FISHER If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!
LAURIE STRONGIN The constitutional presumption is for openness in the courts, but we have to ask whether we are real...
LAURIE LEVENSON He draws defenders. He's got to learn to dish it off more, but with that pace he's a bit of firepowe...
LAURIE CALLOWAY It's more than a slap in the face. It's shoving you in the mud and spitting on you. It's not just a ...
BILL LAURIE I'm rather enjoying the whole process of reinvention, ... To be able to pretend to be something that...
HUGH LAURIE "Cutting bangs are like thong underwear....an "adjustment" period of about two weeks is required bef...
LAURIE OSBURN I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fe...
HUGH LAURIE We don't want this issue hanging over our heads.
LAURIE ARRON