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“My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.”
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“There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.”
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“I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.”
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“I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.”
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“It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.”
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“I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.”
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“The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.”
Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
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“I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
