Lindsay Duncan Quotes
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.Lindsay Duncan
Quotes to Explore
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More modern poetry is written than read.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
Samantha Power -
I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
Gayle Forman -
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
Jack Ma -
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
K. Flay -
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
Patrick Schwarzenegger -
I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
Laura Benanti -
The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
Zhang Zhidong -
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
A. N. Wilson -
I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
Tahl Raz
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
Rahm Emanuel -
It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.
Frances Conroy -
I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
Alfred Rosenberg -
When they talk about legal status, that's code for second-class status.
Hillary Clinton -
I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
Lynn Fontanne -
What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.
Andrew Nikiforuk
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Golf is not easy.
Yani Tseng -
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.
Hal Borland -
My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
Jeff Baena -
You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
Lindsay Duncan