Anson Mount Quotes
For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
Tariq Ramadan
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
Nastia Liukin
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
Jack Whitehall
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Pat Roberts
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
Adam Beach
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
Faran Tahir
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
Daniel Boone
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
J. K. Simmons
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Damian Lewis
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
Sam Kean
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp
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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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If you believe that you can't do something, then you're not going to do it. If you believe you can, and you're willing to put in the effort and figure out a way to do it, then the majority of the time, you can.
Amy Purdy
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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
Alexandra Daddario
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[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
Umberto Eco
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For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.
Anson Mount