Janet McTeer Quotes
The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
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It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
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How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.
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When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
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Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.
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We only have problems we really want to have.
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You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
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Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.
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Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.
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The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
