For 9 percent of adults to say they can't work, that's huge. This all says to me that we have a particular problem in the Northeast and that the numbers of people who are adversely affected on a day-to-day level and the way that is affecting our economy in terms of loss of productivity and health care costs is also huge.
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LAURIE COLWIN I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, '... HUGH LAURIE Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one. LAURIE GRAHAM Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even ... LAURIE GRAHAM With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in da... LAURIE GRAHAM I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementi... LAURIE GRAHAM None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common. LAURIE GRAHAM The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their d... LAURIE GRAHAM America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in t... LAURIE HELGOE Well I was out in my four door With the top down. And I looked up and there they were: M... LAURIE ANDERSON They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you. LAURIE ANDERSON When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. A... LAURIE ANDERSON And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was s... LAURIE ANDERSON Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. LAURIE ANDERSON And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my hea... LAURIE ANDERSON You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're do... LAURIE ANDERSON ….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since ... LAURIE MATTHEW We're getting a lot of air miles, ... I'll go back when I can, and they'll come here when they can. ... HUGH LAURIE The fewer expectations you have, the better. LAURIE ANDERSON As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you'v... LAURIE GRAHAM I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'... PIPER LAURIE When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if s... LAURIE HELGOE It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release str... LAURIE HOLDEN When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song... HUGH LAURIE I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit... LAURIE METCALF I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back. HUGH LAURIE I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The... LAURIE GRAHAM Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players,... HUGH LAURIE I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn... LAURIE LEE 'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more import... LAURIE GARRETT I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. LAURIE METCALF