Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I enjoy my life.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
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Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.
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What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
