Sean Maguire Quotes
As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski -
I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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People always like things that seem exotic.
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I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
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Turns out I'm getting old.
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So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.
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She smacked him so hard his momma felt it.
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As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.
