Mary McDonnell Quotes

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Rest

• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
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• I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

  

  Nate Holland
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  • Better

• At the end of the day, it's all about money.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Money
  • Day
  • End

• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
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  • You
  • Feeling

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
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  • School

• I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
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  • May

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
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• It is important not to trust people too much.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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  • Trust

• I try to tell a story musically in a song.

  

  Barry White
  • Song
  • Story
  • Try

• I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
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  • Women

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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  • Running

• When I'm doing my makeup, my favorite feature to enhance is the brows. They frame your face - good eyebrows are so important.

  

  Callie Hernandez
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• To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feel

• I'm the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Small

• Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.

• When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

  

  Aaron Douglas
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  • Family
  • Beautiful

• I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
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  • Women
  • Gay

• I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Trying
  • Career

• It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

  

  Mary McDonnell
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