Maura Tierney Quotes
I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.
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My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.
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Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
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I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
