My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.


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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
There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it.
LAURIE ARRON
Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night.
LAURIE ARRON
Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage.
LAURIE ARRON
Researchers will look at the OS level, as well as at mobile Web-browsing applications, in an effort ...
LAURIE ARMSTRONG
There's a lot going on. People are taking children into consideration and promoting families more.
LAURIE ARMSTRONG
He started doing walking tours that were hysterical and offered a lot of fascinating history. Now hi...
LAURIE ARMSTRONG
One of the things the hospitality industry offers is employment on every level. Whether someone just...
LAURIE ARMSTRONG
This center is dedicated to long-term research, looking at future innovations and concepts that will...
LAURIE ARMSTRONG
Songs and Stories from Moby Dick,
LAURIE ANDERSON