Sarah Polley Quotes

I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.

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• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Money
  • Done
  • True

• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Geography

• I've wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris... while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone's 'Alexander.' I didn't get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Paris
  • Streets
  • Modeling

• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Song
  • Negativity
  • Faster

• It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • World

• However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

  

  Mary Beard
  • May

• I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Song

• My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Life
  • Dream

• I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Job
  • Emotional
  • Journey

• If you think you aren't valid for whatever reason, let my existence and the way the world embraces my existence tell you that you are valid. You deserve to look, live, and walk through the world however you see fit. That's why I find it extremely important to be so out, so black, and so myself.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Black

• If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • Knows
  • Perfection

• Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • Lovers

• But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Impulse
  • Replaced

• I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work with.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • Work

• I think what I've learned most from being an actress is that there's no method. That you have to invent this process over and over and over again, depending on who you're working with and what you're doing.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Thinking
  • Actress