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.

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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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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.
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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.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.