Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes
'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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I feel like all teenagers can relate to that feeling of being, like, so highly strung, and everything is so on the surface, and everything is so extreme.
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As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon's 'Mama's Family'.
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'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
