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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People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.
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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.