Daniel D. Palmer Quotes

Study first, play afterwards.

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• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • First
  • Accept

• I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • First
  • Got
  • Adolescent

• In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Great
  • Study
  • Progress

• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Movie
  • First

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Play
  • Old

• My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

  

  Vince Carter
  • First
  • Actually
  • Dunk

• 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.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• 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.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Play
  • New
  • Vampire

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Think
  • First
  • Contract

• I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Young
  • First

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • First
  • Walk
  • Interior

• The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Summer
  • First
  • Africa

• He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Play
  • Him
  • Phone

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Life
  • Slave
  • Submit

• The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• Study first, play afterwards.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
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