Maura Tierney Quotes
I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
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Broadway is really my life.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Let us have peace.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I hate competition.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.
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If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.
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Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
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If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.
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I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
