Harriet Walter Quotes
I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.
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I'm a strong woman.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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Strong convictions precede great actions.
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Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
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Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
