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• My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

  Miley Cyrus

  Dad, Artist, Agency

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• I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.

  Mike Leigh

  Cutting, Guy, Feelings

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• What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Twilight, Writing

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• I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

  Archie Panjabi

  Weight, Auditions, Eating

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• And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

  Dave Foley

  Mets, Wounds

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 15, 2009.

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• When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Names, Dull

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• My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

  Alicia Vikander

  Love, Age, London

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• There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

  Meaghan Rath

  Grateful, People, Parent

  "Meaghan Rath Is Not Your Typical Ghost on 'Being Human'". Interview with Frank Nestor, www.backstage.com. February 3, 2012.

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• I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

  Kate Moss

  Jobs, School, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Out of all the neighborhoods in Manhattan, Soho in particular had the charged atmosphere of a movie set, populated with passersby who looked like extras from Central Casting, so perfectly did they fit into this environment. There was the feeling of everything being not quite real, or too perfectly cliched to actually be true, and it began to rain in a fine, misty drizzle from a black patent leather sky.

  Candace Bushnell

  Real, Rain, Sky

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• It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Devil, Accepting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9058, Delphi Classics

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• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.

  David Morrissey

  Acting, Taught, Wells

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• You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Light, Path

  John C. Maxwell (2016). “JumpStart Your Priorities: A 90-Day Improvement Plan”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Fashion, Mean, Science

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• The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.

  Susan Nattrass

  Leadership, People, Shows

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• Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

  Christopher Landsea

  Weather, Doubt, Energy

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• After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, People, Age

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• Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in....I love you

  Steven Strait

  Sweet, Love You, Love Is

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• Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, Fall, Writing

  Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

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• I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Believe, Water

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2010

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• I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Tired, Heart, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had great luck with Tim McGraw twice in 'Friday Night Lights' and 'The Kingdom.' I love finding off-beat casting and finding someone you know in one way and you reinvent them in another way. I like doing that as a director.

  Peter Berg

  Friday, Night, Light

  "Why Did You Cast A Massive Music Superstar In What Amounts To A Run-And-Gun Supporting Role?" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

  Clifton Collins, Jr.

  Being Yourself, Doors, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

  Claudette Colbert

  Made, Couches, Stardom

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