Ezra Furman Quotes
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There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.
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I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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I'm having more fun working on 'Eerie, Indiana' because I have the leading role, and this is more of a lighter type of show.
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Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.
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Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.
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I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
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I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.
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I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
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I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.
