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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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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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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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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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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The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
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You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
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Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.
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There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
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An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.
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My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.
