Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes
I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
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Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the night He was something to observe Came in close, I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve I had to listen, had no choice
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
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I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
