David Ansen Quotes
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar Robertson
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
Halsey
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
Zoe Kravitz
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
Felicity Jones
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
Ian Somerhalder
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
Yoenis Cespedes
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
Gad Elmaleh
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
Aaron Neville
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
Tahar Rahim
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
Malcolm McDowell
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
Carlene Carter
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
Malcolm Arnold
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
P. J. O'Rourke
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
Ikue Mori
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'West Side Story' is one of the greatest theatrical experiences I've had.
John Tiffany
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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
R. L. Stine
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Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
Oliver North
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Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
David Ansen