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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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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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.
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The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.
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Equestrian art, perhaps more than any other, is closely related to the wisdom of life.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.
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I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
