Mary McCormack Quotes
Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
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I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
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Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
