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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Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
Billy Crystal
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As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.
Clive Sinclair
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
Kevin Kline
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When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'
Brie Larson
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
Cameron Diaz
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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