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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.


Laura Linney

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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 Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
LAURA PREPON I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
LAURA PREPON