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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

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• All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Love
  • History

• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

  

  Paracelsus
  • May
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
  • Better

• I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Fight

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Wife

• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Me
  • Look
  • Songs

• Police can only act on intelligence.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Police
  • Intelligence
  • Only

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Strange

• I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Successful

• I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Archetypal

• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Stand
  • Other
  • Shoulders

• There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • California
  • Say
  • Tea

• When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Soul
  • You
  • Care

• Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.

  

  Nora Waln
  • Knowledge
  • Grammar
  • Immediacy

• I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Know
  • Responsibility
  • Care

• And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Lying
  • Judgment

• I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

  

  Leslie Mann
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • Jackets

• What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

  

  Thomas More
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