Janet McTeer Quotes
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal.
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The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
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When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.
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The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.
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I just want people to focus on the performance.
