Maureen Forrester Quotes
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
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I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
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All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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Give yourself time to digitally detox from your constantly connected life, and keep your phone away from your bed.
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I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
