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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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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Jesus did not send us to declare the gospel only where people are responsive or where our witness is welcome. He did not expect us to be on mission to disciple peoples only where there is no danger or risk involved. He was unequivocal in His mandate to disciple the nations (peoples)—all of them!
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Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
