Mary McDonnell Quotes
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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One does not throw out dirty water as long as one doesn't have any clean water.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.
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Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
