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Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

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Laura Linney
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 5
Actor
Actress
Character Actor
Film Actor
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Laura Leggett Linney
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Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.
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I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I'm put in whatever situation it is that's gonna help me learn it, or that I'll get to watch really good people do what they do.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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I love working closely with people.
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A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
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Ask why until there is no more why.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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To be too knowing is a downfall.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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