Maureen Forrester Quotes
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Good design should be honest.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.
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The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.
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I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.
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Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
