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It really is different. You have to figure out how each athlete works in order to get the most out of them.


Maggie Germaine

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MAGGIE SMITH I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't th...
MAGGIE SMITH I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than on...
MAGGIE SMITH Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
MAGGIE SMITH When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
MAGGIE SMITH I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having...
MAGGIE SMITH It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe t...
MAGGIE SMITH People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
MAGGIE SMITH My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
MAGGIE SMITH Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
MAGGIE SMITH There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it&#...
MAGGIE SMITH There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
MAGGIE SMITH I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the...
MAGGIE SMITH Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
MAGGIE SMITH I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for bein...
MAGGIE SIFF I so never went through a bad-girl period.
MAGGIE SIFF I was an English major in college!
MAGGIE SIFF As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
MAGGIE SIFF A day on a film set is maddening.
MAGGIE SIFF Im not your biggest girly girl.
MAGGIE SIFF I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
MAGGIE SHAYNE Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a r...
MAGGIE SHAYNE To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wond...
MAGGIE SHAYNE How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead e...
MAGGIE ROWE I have slavishly dedicated myself to the construction of an image that nobody but me sees. Nobody bu...
MAGGIE ROWE I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
MAGGIE ROWE