Janet McTeer Quotes
There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.
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I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
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Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.
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There's a reason I live in the Maine woods, where nobody knows what I do for a living. I think you can be better if someone who's coming to see you perform has no idea who you really are.
