Sarah Polley Quotes

It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

Sarah Polley

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• Nature is under control but not disturbed.

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Disturbed

• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Support
  • Technology
  • Commitment

• All of my songs are autobiographical.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Songs
  • Autobiographical

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Sister

• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Money
  • Free
  • Me

• It's brutal out on the football field.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Field
  • Brutal

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Easy
  • Worth
  • Forgiving

• When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Mother
  • City
  • Star

• I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Real
  • Science
  • Medical

• Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Consciousness
  • Monk`s
  • Investigating

• At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character-an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• Every kid wants to give their family a better life.

  

  J. B. Bernstein
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Kind
  • Boys
  • Dull Jackasses

• It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Scary