Dana Spiotta Quotes
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.Dana Spiotta
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco -
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Patricia Riggen -
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
J. C. Watts -
With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
Taya Kyle
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama -
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz -
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable -
I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
Patrick Rafter -
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
Ralph Richardson -
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao Tzu
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali -
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Gail Collins -
In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
Jack Keane -
I will never sell Flipkart.
Sachin Bansal -
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein
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Without even knowing, a person goes around scattering their heart. That's why if you're with a smiling person, you end up smiling with them.
Dong Young-bae Big Bang -
The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
Michael Arndt -
It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
Lynn Davies -
The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.
Adepero Oduye -
Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.
Ajit Pai -
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
Dana Spiotta