Dana Spiotta Quotes
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.Dana Spiotta
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco -
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Patricia Riggen -
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
J. C. Watts -
With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
Taya Kyle
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama -
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz -
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable -
I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
Patrick Rafter -
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
Ralph Richardson -
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao Tzu
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali -
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Gail Collins -
In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
Jack Keane -
I will never sell Flipkart.
Sachin Bansal -
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein
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What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.
Marianne Elliott -
I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.
Belinda Carlisle -
All are before me! I behold The House, the Brotherhood austere! - And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?
Matthew Arnold -
I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
Alfred Molina -
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
Dana Spiotta