Charlize Theron Quotes

My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• I just love playing in major championships.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Playing
  • Major
  • Championships

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Day

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Job
  • Look

• When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, 'Look out!'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Job
  • Running
  • Walking

• I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • Education
  • College

• I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Great
  • Job
  • Waiting

• The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Job
  • Know
  • Learn

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • May
  • Job
  • Man

• When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Good
  • Done
  • Why

• You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Job
  • Quality

• And I called her and gave her the job. And then I cast Orlando to her. He was like the kind of ingenue-discovery part and she was the established actor that I usually give the guy role to.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Established

• There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Perfect
  • Single
  • Artist

• He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Sex

• I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Support
  • Balance

• In our own country, from the trivial to the truly dangerous, it is the range and regularity of the untruths we see that should be cause for profound alarm, and spur to action.

  

  Jeff Flake
  • Country
  • Action
  • Profound

• My job is to be a blank canvas & embody the characters that I'm playing.

  

  Charlize Theron
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