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My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

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• All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Love
  • History

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Worth It
  • Not Worth It

• Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Career
  • Walk
  • Park

• I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Successful

• I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • World
  • Experience
  • Bad

• Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Friend

• A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Radio

• It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Years

• I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Father
  • Want
  • Myself

• For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Learning
  • Language
  • Rich

• It's not going to interfere with the film. I heal miraculously. I've been in an auto accident and another fire. They thought I'd need plastic surgery, but I haven't a scar...No, I don't think I'm accident prone, but it's strange.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Fire
  • Auto

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Age
  • Father

• I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Fall

• We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing on a treadmill, people are going to say we sold out. I don't write music for that. I write music for me.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • People
  • Music

• In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Failure
  • Promise

• Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

  

  Michael Isikoff
  • Government
  • Anything
  • Clearly

• I like the desperado aspect of essays, the free lance, that mercenary kind of thing, so I just do it, without asking anyone's permission. I've never written a query letter, I don't pitch pieces, I have no market in mind, I don't spend any time trying to figure out where I might fit in.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Fit

• My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

  

  Josh Charles
  • Different
  • Play
  • Jobs