Ezra Furman Quotes

I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

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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.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Role
  • Israel
  • Scholarship

• Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Know
  • Play
  • Role

• Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Justice
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Think
  • Career
  • Me

• I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Enjoy
  • Role

• Everybody has a role or part to play; if somebody fits the bill, that is what matters.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Play
  • Role
  • Matters

• 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.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Role
  • Bee
  • Dinosaur

• I feel so honored to be reprising the role of Janet Weiss and stepping into Susan Sarandon's shoes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Feel
  • Shoes
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Fun
  • Working
  • Role

• Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Help
  • Role
  • Projects

• 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.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Live
  • Action

• In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Band
  • Role
  • Well

• I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Role
  • Motherhood

• We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Society
  • Play
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Present
  • Danger
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
  • Conscious

• The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Homosexuality
  • Proposition
  • Heterosexuality

• In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

  

  John Tukey
  • World
  • Prove
  • Economics

• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  

  Ed Koch
  • Get
  • Leave
  • Manhattan

• The PLO was founded three years before the Israelis ever occupied Gaza and the West Bank, and that the PLO wanted Israel wiped off the map. But in a ninety-second story, who has time to remind viewers that when the PLO was founded, Gaza was illegally occupied by Egypt, and the West Bank by Jordan, but Yasser Arafat did not mind those occupations? Where were the voices of the Palestinians then for their independent state?

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • Israel
  • Palestinians
  • PLO

• Our men fought bravely, but the enemy repulsed me. Many valuable lives were lost. Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.

  

  Stonewall Jackson
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Protecting

• I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Role
  • Misconceptions