Sarah MacLean Quotes
I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
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I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.
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The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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Kerrang asked us to do a heavy metal tribute to one of our favorite heavy metal bands. We had already been jamming out on 'Walk,' so we're like, 'OK. We'll record it for you guys.'
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I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.
