Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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As you give out, so shall you receive.
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Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
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Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.