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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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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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 think the movie Light of the World will help a lot of pastors. It should get a lot of people sold-uh, saved.
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Crossing the line and being world champion, I've always dreamt about it, and now I've done it. It's quite a surreal feeling, but obviously very special.
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I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's nothing sexier than life experience, and there's nothing sexier than knowing your own body and having a little bit of experience with that.
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Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
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When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
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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.
