Maura Tierney Quotes
After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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I love myself and I am a good person.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
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After 'NewsRadio,' I did say to my agent, 'If I get another TV show, I'd want to do a drama.' Then I got offered the part on 'ER,' and I was on that show for eight years.
