Mary Stuart Masterson Quotes
I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
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The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.
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I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
