Samira Wiley Quotes
Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.Samira Wiley
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
Frances Fisher -
It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
Ed Helms -
I don't really go out at all.
Jack Kerouac -
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco -
The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
Dale Earnhardt -
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
Paolo Gentiloni -
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion -
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
Octavia E. Butler -
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
Larry Page -
I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
Barbara Bush
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
Wang Jianlin -
Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
Ian Smith -
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith -
So the storm passed and every one was happy.
Kate Chopin
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Pamela Sargent -
I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
Mahershala Ali -
I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time.
Kelly McGillis -
I like working with directors much, because I want to be able to give myself completely to their vision. Otherwise I would only do what I could do, again and again. I want to be taken by someone in a different direction.
Catherine Deneuve -
Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
Samira Wiley