There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.
Which would you rather be. . . divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
We can't always take the most obvious road in life.
I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.
I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.
I just love bright red drinks!
Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
There was this kind of wackiness that was really embraced and put on a pedestal. It was before the millennium. We were envisioning a future that was mostly idealistic. I think that came crashing down a little bit in 911, or a lot. There is something about Portland that does seem to still exist in this total idealistic world and total idealistic mind frame, and I think that's what Dream of the '90s is talking about.
Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not career, money, drugs, sex, alcohol or fun. Not that there's anything wrong with any of those things, but they aren't in the film [Dream of Life], because that wasn't my life at the time.