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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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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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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I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
