Sarah Polley Quotes
The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.Sarah Polley
Quotes to Explore
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I always wanted pink hair.
Rachel McAdams -
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
Yochai Benkler -
I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
Ram Charan -
The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
Yair Lapid -
Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
Rachel Weisz
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Sallust -
'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
Adam Hughes -
We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
Maeve Binchy -
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Abraham Lincoln -
In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
Adam Driver -
I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
J. R. Smith
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I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.
Rachel Roy -
Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
Sam Altman -
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
Kate Fleetwood -
The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.
Irving Kirsch -
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
Kate Bernheimer -
I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.
Leon Uris
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The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.
Ian Bremmer -
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes -
Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
Irvine Welsh -
Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
Vincent Bugliosi -
The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.
Sarah Polley