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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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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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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People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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My biggest lesson in becoming a woman is to really love what I've been given.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Playing for the first time in Russia was wonderful, and it's a huge perk of the job to get to experience those different cultures.
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Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
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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.
