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		That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Oldman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Feist 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My characters hope for better lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavia E. Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Floyd Mayweather, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				K. D. Lang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sammy Davis, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olivia Newton-John 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There were a lot of really special moments for me. When I first sang 'Fix You' by Coldplay, that was one. I love that song so much, and I love Coldplay, and I love what the song meant. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brynn Cartelli 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hazrat Inayat Khan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maya Angelou 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Theophrastus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Oldman