Rebecca Mader Quotes

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
  • Best

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Present

• I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Government
  • Campaign
  • Antigovernment

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Goals
  • Down

• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Famous

• I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Security

• 'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Taken
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• I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Star
  • Film
  • Inspiration

• I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Women
  • Single
  • Images

• I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Money
  • House
  • Government

• Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Live
  • Die
  • Unknown

• I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• Γνώμης δ᾽ ἀπούσης πῆμα γίγνεται μέγα,βαλοῦσά τ᾽ οἶκον ψῆφος ὤρθωσεν μία.

  

  Aeschylus

• I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Feeling

• I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People

• Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

  

  William James
  • Mean
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.

  

  Courtney Ford
  • Character
  • Relax

• It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.

  

  Michael Dorn
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• The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

  

  Rebecca Mader
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