For introverts, the best associations start with ideas. If you don’t feel a part of your neighborhood association or the happy hour regulars after work, don’t force it. The community that surrounds you may not be your community.


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I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can&...
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
It's not his physical gait that is transforming, ... It's the having one hand. It's being one-handed...
HUGH LAURIE
I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surrou...
HUGH LAURIE
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
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human ...
HUGH 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 couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for...
HUGH LAURIE
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
This may be my deficiency, but I don't think of him as great bastard at all.
HUGH LAURIE
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
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