Anne Donovan Quotes
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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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.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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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.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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'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.
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are a naturally hierarchical species.
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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.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.
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I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.
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The end excuses any evil.
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I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.
