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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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.
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Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
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My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
