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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.


Laura Benanti

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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 I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon...
LAURA PREPON I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, &#...
LAURA PREPON In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is ...
LAURA PREPON When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,...
LAURA PREPON I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
LAURA PREPON On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's ...
LAURA PREPON I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you...
LAURA PREPON There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
LAURA PREPON The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't bel...
LAURA PREPON