Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
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  • May

• Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Up
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  • Beginning

• If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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• I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

  

  Dan Futterman
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• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Children
  • City
  • Closing

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
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• Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Development
  • Africa

• Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Youth
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• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

  Randy Couture
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• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Brain
  • Being
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• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
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• Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Challenge
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• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

  

  Gaines Adams
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• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

  

  Tacitus
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• It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
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  • Goal

• In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Career
  • Reality
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• Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

  

  Tyne Daly
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  • Interesting
  • Cutting

• After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.

  

  Jerry A. Webman

• Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Work
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• I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

  

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• 'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Interesting