Merritt Wever Quotes
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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Work in the theater is more fun than fun.
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She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
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This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.
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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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Theater has always been terrifying to me.
