Laura Freid
Related J.K. ROWLING LOIS LOWRY When we knew this game was coming we thought it would be something special, and it was. You have a H... ADRIAN BELTRE The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r... SAMUEL LARSEN ZORA NEALE HURSTON PAULLINA SIMONS I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and th... ADAM JONES RONALD KESSLER That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs... LUIS FONSI BRITNEY SPEARS DAVID BYRNE B. B. KING LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out wha... REYNOLDS PRICE I knew it the minute after I called it. I think I was just so loud that everyone thought it was righ... DARLETA MAYHUE CHRISTINA ENGELA TIM CAHILL CHRISTINA ENGELA In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of ... IMELDA MAY It was a long wait. It seemed like forever. I wish we could relive it again., though, I wish we coul... LISA BLUDER JOHN SCALZI LOIS LOWRY At first I thought it was a cry for attention, but it turned out to be so much bigger. I was shocked... KARLEE WEINMANN RUDY GIULIANI SARAH VOWELL We had to shoot the Last Splash dance scene, and that was the song that was playing. So we probably ... EMMA ROBERTS Once upon a time there was an empress, trapped as a ghost in the ruins of a jewelled palace, cursed ... KIRSTY LOGAN We made eye contact. There was no talking. We heard what we thought was a gunshot. We weren't sure. CAPT. DAVE WULFF We knew right away from his exam and where his discomfort was that it wasn't his shoulder. The MRI w... WILLIAM RAASCH My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I th... BRIAN SETZER Joel (Koopmans) got a good look at a (3-pointer) and it was in and out (to start the third). I think... DEAN WAGENAAR Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but... GERRY BECKLEY We got a call from our neighbor saying that our roof was coming off. It was right at the peak of the... CAROLYN VALLONE MAGGIE STIEFVATER He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment. BRIAN KRANS The day's blow rang out, metallic -- or it was I, a bell awakened, and what I heard was my whole sel... DENISE LEVERTOV When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the... WAYNE COYNE I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my ... KARLA SOUZA LESLEY GARRETT LAURA MVULA When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ... KAT EDMONSON We made a series of bad decisions, one after another after another ? and not getting food and water ... BILL SATURNO A song of hate is a song of Hell;
Some there be who sing it well.
Let them sing it loud and lo... HELEN GRAY CONE MALCOLM GLADWELL BILL AYERS He was in the middle of the field. On the one he missed, he was at an angle and there was a hump in ... GARY HOUSEHOLDER We had a chance but turned it over. I was very happy that they fought back from an eight-point defic... DAN DUNN We also hung out at what was then Conley Rayne's (now Rayne's Reef) in Berlin, and there was roller ... HUDSON BROWN JOHN CONNOLLY We were doing a benefit for this Spanish cause, the Spanish Loyalists who were fighting against Fran... ALAN LOMAX DEYTH BANGER MAGGIE STIEFVATER ARUNDHATI ROY 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to t... ZAC BROWN There was no magic moment when they started working together. It was a little bit of an evolutionary... GARY LONDON STEPHANIE KLEIN SUZANNE COLLINS I was surprised to see that our funding was cut back from what we initially thought. AMY JONES There was still a long way to cut on the tree, so I didn't expect it to snap. Then I heard my friend... DEAN SCHMUNK EMINEM I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because ... CHRIS SQUIRE I was onstage singing with Luke Bryan, and he started singing a song that we hadn't rehearsed. B... BRETT ELDREDGE I wanted to get back out there and try it again because I knew it was an accident. LINDSEY JOHNSON It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up. ALLISON MERZON SARAH DESSEN I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ... ABBEY LINCOLN I don't know what happened out there. We played like a joke out there in the second half. It was not... KYLE WILLIAMS From the moment (the contract) was done, we haven't thought about it since. ALLAN WALSH It took him a long time to figure out what the problem was. He'd been to see all kinds of people but... DICK SCOTT LEWIS CARROLL The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER It was like I'd climbed Everest, had the summit in my sight, the flag in my hand, all ready to pierc... HOLLY BOURNE NILE RODGERS VLADIMIR NABOKOV CARRIE UNDERWOOD In the early '70s he started hitting on that. It may have been because the country was moving into t... MIKE ALBERT It was a real tough loss. Every game is like a must-win for us right now. We're having a bad losing ... BEN GORDON Our thoughts and our prayers are turned towards Puck in Arizona. We all heard about this before lunc... RON GARDENHIRE It was a long, hard, difficult negotiation. Merrill thought there was a risk, and we negotiated a se... HERBERT MILSTEIN Knowing it was my solo debut at Carnegie Hall and looking out at the audience and knowing that we we... BERNADETTE PETERS He was a group supervisor and I was teaching in the hall. There it is, Cat and Bill, they met at the... CATALINA NOCON It was a pretty crazy game. At first, I wasn't really nervous that we fell behind, because we always... BRANDON BREAZELL When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway s... BETH GRANT You have the family of a homicide victim who is looking for justice and wants to see that suspect be... BARBARA MILLER R. KELLY For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or... PETER FINCH When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should... DARIUS RUCKER Jenny’s admonition had the desired effect. Ned drew a deep breath and thrust his arm gingerly into... COURTNEY MILAN CASSANDRA CLARE ARTHUR GOLDEN I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Sc... BRETT ELDREDGE DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DARLENE LOVE JON BON JOVI Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The key was our heart, determination. At one moment we thought we were out. Then I had some good luc... FILIPPO INZAGHI
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The music is very beautiful, but when people hear it they experience emotions and a meaning that goe... LAURA FREID We see the Silk Road as a symbol of cultural discovery and exchange, and the project uses artistic e... LAURA FREID Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders ... LAURA 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 LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WILKINSON LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER LAURA WASSER 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 LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER LAURA SCHLESSINGER 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 LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING LAURA RIDING 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... 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I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dr... LAURA OSNES As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first. LAURA OSNES If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want. LAURA OSNES 'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part... LAURA OSNES That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role. LAURA OSNES I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at th... LAURA OSNES If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a peopl... LAURA OSNES My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New... LAURA OSNES Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that w... LAURA OSNES I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but... LAURA OSNES I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always ... LAURA OSNES I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it... LAURA OSNES Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway! LAURA OSNES 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that. LAURA OSNES I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is ... LAURA OSNES That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and show... LAURA OSNES People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do. LAURA OSNES Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's... LAURA OSNES LAURA NYRO LAURA MVULA LAURA MVULA
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a strick... 
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him... 
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It... 
A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his wal... 
My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and T... 
I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song and I p... 
and echoes to my singing. More sounds went on—an arc-like melody created using an echo machine, an... 
I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all. 
Again at Park Corner. We came up to Kensington yesterday evening and drove down here. It was a beaut... 
You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You'... 
We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... 
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed th... 
I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w... 
Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard ... 
We believe we found the letter that explains the reason why the woman there was infected, and the or... 
A couple of days after the last time I saw him, I got a typically well-written postcard. He said tha... 
I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever... 
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... 
It made me realize that I'd changed what I thought was a trivial aspect of who I was but it profound... 
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions o... 
I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...'
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. 
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the h... 
I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck... 
He couldn’t, Haymitch. He never heard me sing that song.” “Not you. Your father. He heard him ... 
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. 
I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where w... 
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get o... 
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... 
You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind... 
The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Ta... 
When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ... 
You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will."
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. 
We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather and the... 
We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather — and th... 
Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on... 
I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that ther... 
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. 
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal. 
The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive... 
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that... 
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t... 
Many states favor joint custody. 
Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card. 
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. 
I pretty much preach, teach and nag. 
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. 
You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one. 
Free love sounds great. 
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,... 
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist. 
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultim... 