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• Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.

  Rob Lowe

  Beautiful, Men, People

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Kings, Children, Drama

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black

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• The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.

  Thomas Boston

  Hands, Land, Rope

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• But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

  Ellen Douglas

  Passion, Men, Female

  Ellen Douglas (2012). “A Lifetime Burning”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

  Soyen Shaku

  Sleep, Shoes, Lasts

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• As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

  Miguel Serrano

  Book, Destiny, Men

  Miguel Serrano (1997). “C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships”, p.14, Daimon

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• Even a single hair casts its shadow.

  Publilius Syrus

  Hair, Shadow

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 228, 1856.

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• Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!

  Steve Pavlina

  Waiting, Pieces, Clarity

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• Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

  Khalil

  Afterlife, Greed, Trying

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• C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

  Alan Perlis

  Void, Programmers, Dies

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• And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

  St. Jerome

  Fall, Paradise, Married

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.744, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

  Alan Redpath

  Order, Feet, May

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• Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Anchors, Care

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1201, Delphi Classics

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• When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Sleep

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• The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

  Walt Whitman

  Reading, Writing, Iron

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Talent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Real, Years, Csi

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• I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.

  Tori Spelling

  Athletic, Cartwheels, I Can

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• Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Captains, Ships

  "Again, with 20% more existential grief". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  Victoria Jackson

  Girl, Thinking, Hollywood

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• I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

  Victoria Pratt

  Thinking, People, Crew

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• I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Support, Ensemble, I've Learned

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• I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  New York, Successful, Wicked

  "Norbert Leo Butz And The Root Of Evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Law, Practice, Shows

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