Maura Tierney Quotes
With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Usually when I write a movie, I'm lucky if I get one good actress.
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Today what is more important for me is performance. At the risk of sounding immodest, I have done it all - 61 movies over 12 years. But now I am looking for quality. It's easy to be a star. Now I want to be an actress.
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I had been tracked from grades 1 through 12 in an accelerated program in the public school system in Memphis and had done well in math and science classes. When I was getting ready for college, my guidance counselors suggested I look into engineering.
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Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
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With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.
