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It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.


Hugh Laurie

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LAURIE HOLDEN I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether ...
LAURIE HOLDEN Measures we can take to handle pandemic flu if it emerges in the next six months are limited and ble...
LAURIE GARRETT Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interact...
LAURIE HELGOE And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.
PIPER LAURIE One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.
PIPER LAURIE Instead of changing my name, I would change Piper Laurie. That was the beginning.
PIPER LAURIE But then I became so disillusioned.... I had very little life experience and certainly no technique ...
PIPER LAURIE She hit the ball well. Jennifer Hecht served well to keep her in the front row to get all those kill...
LAURIE GLASS When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher ...
LAURIE HOLDEN I've always jealously guarded my feminine mystique. I've been married twice, and neither of ...
LAURIE GRAHAM I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of...
LAURIE GRAHAM My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
LAURIE METCALF Yoga increases body awareness, the body/mind connection. We live in such a cerebral world, yoga can ...
LAURIE SABOURIN He's a curmudgeon - even at his own premiere.
LAURIE DAVID Courts don't want to invade the deliberative process. We favor finality, and we don't want to send a...
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 Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so hug...
LAURIE ANDERSON 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 The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions.
LAURIE ZOLOTH 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