Mary McDonnell Quotes
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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Winning excuses everything.
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When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.
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I love to work. I love to have complexity.
