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Helen McCrory Quotes

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: August 17, 1968

Topics

Positive Happiness Decision Me You

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art Theatre Planning Design Year

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

Chance Congress President Changes

The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

Business Entertainment Remains

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

You Paint Coat Extra Still Put

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

Life World Deep Satisfaction Beast

What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.

Music Day Personality People You

I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Quiet Kind Hang Something Just

One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive.

Equality Years Fifty Gettysburg Many

On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether.

Home Night Better Driving You Play

I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college.

Good Sports College Growing Up Road

I've been kind of listening to the composer Britten and his rendition of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The opening track is a choral section where all the weird fairies, who are played by kids in the production, sing. It's a crazy opening melody and chord sequence - really amazing.

Amazing Crazy Listening Night Weird

One of the biggest mistakes people make when hanging curtains is hanging them too low. It can make a room feel really shrimpy to hang the curtain rod just above the window moldings. Go all the way up to just below crown moulding or below the ceiling if there is no crown.

Mistakes People Window Feel Crown

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