Neil Peart Quotes
The middle aged madonnacalls her neighbor on the phone.Day by day, the seasons passand leave her life alone.But she'll go walking out that dooron some bright afternoonto go and paint big citiesfrom a lonely attic room. - Middletown Dreams (1985)
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
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Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.
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It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
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I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.
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The middle aged madonnacalls her neighbor on the phone.Day by day, the seasons passand leave her life alone.But she'll go walking out that dooron some bright afternoonto go and paint big citiesfrom a lonely attic room. - Middletown Dreams (1985)
