Maggie Smith Quotes
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Maggie Smith
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan
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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
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Orville Wright
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Even people who say that black people are minorities, there are a billion black people in the world. A billion white people. What part of that is a minority? If you separate yourself, then maybe. But I see black people as one man. When I see people beaten on the streets of America, that hurts me. I feel that.
Daniel Kaluuya
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker
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I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.
Keira Knightley
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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
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I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.
John Coltrane
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
Maggie Smith