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Janet McTeer Quotes

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

Janet McTeer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: August 5, 1961

Topics

Mother Growing Up Generation Values

Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

John Burnside

World Flight Know Will Elegant Hawk

There were many times that I took such a big hit that I was dazed; I'm not going to lie. I'd see black, but I'm still looking for the puck. Where's the play going? I'm going to keep going. Same thing in figure skating. If I take a hard fall, I'm going to get up, and I'm going to do the next jump.

Max Aaron

Keep Going Lie Looking Black Play

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

Angelina Jolie

Life Family Live Moment Start You

By giving your feelings a name, you're identifying how you feel.

John Rampton

Name Feel Giving You Feelings Your

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

Steve Buscemi

Doing Like Really Stand-Up

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

Steven Berkoff

Life Nature British Blunt Pragmatic

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

Robert Carlyle

Work Children You Reason Level Lot

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.

Rob Lowe

Wife World Important Build Two Sons

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

Rory Bremner

Will Irish Resources Division Bitter

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Romesh Gunesekera

Live Time Moment Roots World Escape

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

Michael Servetus

Church Lord Tyrants May Destroy

Working on the ABC movie 'Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige,'' which we filmed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was a special pleasure, particularly because I'd played baseball in high school.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

School Baseball High School Story