Miranda Leek Quotes
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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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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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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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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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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 would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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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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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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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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It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.
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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
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Medicines that target the autonomic nervous system, like propranolol or clonidine, can help to decrease hyperarousal and reactivity to stress.
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I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'
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Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
