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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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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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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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.
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I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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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.
