D. B. Sweeney Quotes

I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

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• I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • City
  • Always
  • New York

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Nothing
  • Skill

• After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • High
  • Theatre

• Texas is a pretty free state.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Pretty
  • Free
  • Texas

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Dance

• I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Normal

• The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Worst
  • Cry

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • May

• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • You
  • Nice

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!

  

  Bill Maher
  • World
  • Age

• Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Canvas
  • Masterpiece
  • Gadflies

• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Nature
  • Changes

• My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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