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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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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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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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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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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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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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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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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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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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.
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You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.
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I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.
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The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.
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I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
