Sean Maguire Quotes

As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Progress
  • Step

• 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.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• 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.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Working
  • Learned

• 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
  • Done
  • Home
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Family
  • Home
  • Congress

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • She
  • You
  • Confidence

• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Up
  • Light
  • Poetry

• I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Light

• When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Movie
  • Habit
  • External

• I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Work
  • Together
  • Group

• People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

  

  Mary Wesley
  • People
  • Work
  • Marriage

• I'll remind you that the West signed a deal with North Korea, said it would make the world a safer place, and, of course, all the words evaporated, and North Korea acquired nuclear weapons.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Words
  • Said

• As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.

  

  Sean Maguire
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Industry