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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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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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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Heroes can be sweet.
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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 can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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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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For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
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There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.
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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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Stay true to yourself, engage with your followers, and ignore the critics.
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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
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Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
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Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.
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There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'
