Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher Quotes
I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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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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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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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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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
