Sarah Polley Quotes
I am aware that I've generally been more attracted to introspective roles, but it's sort of bizarre, because it's the opposite of who I am in many ways. I think I'm quite an extroverted, loud person. So it interests me that that's sort of the place that I go all quiet, is when I'm onscreen. It's a bit strange.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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I build engines and attach wheels to them.
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Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.
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We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.
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In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
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I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.
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Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.
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Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
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When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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I am aware that I've generally been more attracted to introspective roles, but it's sort of bizarre, because it's the opposite of who I am in many ways. I think I'm quite an extroverted, loud person. So it interests me that that's sort of the place that I go all quiet, is when I'm onscreen. It's a bit strange.
