Top 18 Philomena Quotes

#1. We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.

Judi Dench

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#2. Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

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#3. I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story ... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

Judi Dench

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#4. Christ died to free us from the burden of our sin, but he never, so far as [Sister Philomena:] could see, lifted a finger to free us from our stupidity

Hilary Mantel

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#5. Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.

Pope Gregory XVI

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#6. This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.

Judi Dench

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#7. Philomena spun a tale about a butterfly that turned back into a caterpillar - saying that the butterfly would rather live in the cocoon for years than fly under the sun for only a few short days.
"Butterflies don't last," said Philomena solemnly.

Anya Allyn

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#8. 'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.

Claire Tomalin

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#9. I had a dream about you last night ... Unfortunately, it wasn't a dream.

Amy Summers

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#10. In any situation, the ability to see true beauty gives you true freedom.

Debasish Mridha

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#11. Juno MacGuff: Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

Diablo Cody

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#12. Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Isaac Asimov

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#13. From the beginning, I had a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled. This gave me an inner security, and, though I could never prove to myself, it proved itself to me. I did not have the certainty, it had me.

C. G. Jung

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#14. It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong
tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone
in the place where I make no mistakes
in the place where I have what it takes

Elliott Smith

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#15. The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Margot Asquith

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#16. This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

Mark Nepo

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#17. Your shelled bed I remember.
Father, this thick air is murderous.
I would breathe water.

Sylvia Plath

Philomena Quotes #460358
#18. If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

Zakk Wylde

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