Evelyn Glennie Quotes
I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
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With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
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I've never been a much of a glamour girl.
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
