Janet McTeer Quotes
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.
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You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.
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I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.
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It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.
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The secretary actually already has a good deal of authority within the confines of the Affordable Care Act. Step one really is a question of whether or not HHS will continue to reimburse insurance companies for cost-sharing expenses.
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Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.
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There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.
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Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
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Inaudible music may seem an odd notion, even a foolishly Romantic one-although it is partly the Romantic prejudice in favor of sensuous experience that makes it seem odd. Still, there are details of music which cannot be heard but only imagined, and even certain aspects of musical form which cannot be realized in sound even by the imagination.
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One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
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I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.
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I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.
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As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.
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There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'
