Anne Donovan Quotes

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

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• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Like
  • Moral
  • Feel

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Career
  • Start

• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Day
  • Hurt
  • Horse

• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fight

• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Children
  • Know
  • Hunger

• I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Natural
  • Objects
  • Physical

• For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Violence

• As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Lost
  • Justice
  • Marriage

• For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • City

• We are a naturally hierarchical species.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Species
  • Naturally

• I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • School
  • Me

• Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

  

  Erroll Garner
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Sit Down

• I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

  

  Dorothy Malone
  • Rock

• Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Mirror

• Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

  

  Charles Churchill
  • Up
  • World
  • Rest

• Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Writing
  • School
  • Language

• I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

  

  Anne Donovan