Omar Khayyam Quotes

A moment guess'd - then back behind the Fold Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll'd Which, for the Pastime of Eternity, He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold.

Omar Khayyam

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• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

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• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

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• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

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• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

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• You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.

  

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• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

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• I'm not the girl next door.

  

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• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
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• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I am really addicted to music.

  

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• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

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• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

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• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.

  

  Ilan Stavans
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• The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.

  

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• Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

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• I cherish everything I have because I worked hard for each one.

  

  Coco Martin

• I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
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• The opulence and grandeur of a lot of period drama really helps you get into character and appreciate the luxury of good quality. If you're fashion-minded in any way, you can't help but be incredibly inspired and apply elements to your own style.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • Good
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• A moment guess'd - then back behind the Fold Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll'd Which, for the Pastime of Eternity, He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Drama