Quote by Sarah Polley

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someo

Summary

The speaker discusses how the death of their mother due to cancer impacted them, emphasizing their desire to maintain emotional distance from personal experiences while assuming a role. However, they acknowledge that this particular event had a profound effect on them, regardless of their attempts to address it separately.

Topics

Mom

By Sarah Polley

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must a

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Freedom

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they disp

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Logic

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Morning

I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock

I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.

Amazing

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every ton

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

William Shakespeare

Conscience

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

G. M. Trevelyan

Reading

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Technology

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

Abraham Lincoln

Sin

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Decisions Certainty Doubts

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day,

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

Alone

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wh

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Murder

Education