Mary Pilon Quotes
It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
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The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.
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We are not rolling over on this. It's too important to the nation and to the nation's children.
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As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.
