Maureen Forrester Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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War is over if you want it.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
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What I want most is for my son to be proud of me.
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I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
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I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
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It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough.
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My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
