Maggie Carey Quotes
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
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Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
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We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
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You have to be resilient.
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
