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• 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
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• I'm not a fan of action movies.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Being

• I like challenges. I think that's important.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Important
  • Think
  • Challenges

• Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Say

• On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Los Angeles. It was so hectic. I remember changing in my car before I went in to read.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Day
  • Car

• Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Health
  • Care
  • Need

• Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Good
  • Believe
  • American

• In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Focus

• On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • House
  • March

• The way Aventura became successful was so weird. We didn't have a major label. They say everything has a reason, but it's not easy to find. The only thing that was right was the music.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music
  • Weird

• I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Band

• I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Up
  • Money
  • Nature

• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heaven
  • Act
  • Stone

• Oh Billie I want you so, I'm trying to meet you. Too many things they don’t know, too many repeatings, of beatings.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Beatings

• A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Men
  • Environment
  • Location

• There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turn off.

  

  Jonathan Katz
  • Environment
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  • Billboards