Alla Nazimova Quotes
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.
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For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.
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Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
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I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.
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The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
