Caroline Polachek Quotes
Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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A will finds a way.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
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Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.
