Janet McTeer Quotes
I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I'm not graceful.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
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My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.
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To go straight to 'Scandal' and get to play the larger-than-life guy who has the page-long rants and gets drilled in the leg with blood flying everywhere, it was a blast. It's really been a nice counterpoint after the first season of 'The Carrie Diaries.'
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
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I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
