Janet McTeer Quotes
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
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Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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I always felt an outsider.
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I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Somalia is so bad that making a mess improves the place.
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Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!
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I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
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Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.
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Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
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I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
