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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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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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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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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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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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.
