Maureen Forrester Quotes
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.
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I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.
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If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.
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Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?
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I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.
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After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
