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• When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

  Viola Davis

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

  Willem Dafoe

  Dancer, Actors, Doers

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

  Willem Dafoe

  Frustration, Directors, Stories

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• I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

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• I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

  Paula Fox

  People, Lovely, Kind

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• We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Woods, Way

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

  Sky Ferreira

  Growing Up, Home, Grandmother

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

  Will Friedle

  Nice, Voice, Body

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• It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

  David Graeber

  People, Democracy, Together

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• There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

  Maggie Grace

  Thinking, Space, Bullets

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• There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun.

  Summer Glau

  Fun, Class, Dancing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.

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• We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.

  Johnny Galecki

  Missing, Actors, Actresses

  "'The Big Bang Theory' Cast On Being Part of an Ensemble". Backstage Interview, www.backstage.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

  Lori Greiner

  Thinking, Good Things, Can Do

  "20 Great Quotes From 'Shark Tank' Investors Barbara Corcoran And Lori Greiner" by John Brandon, www.businessinsider.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Believe, Issues

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Smart, Moving, Hard Work

  "Food, fear and business success". Interview with Jessica Ravitz, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

  Megan Abbott

  Thinking, Age, Said

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• I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Type, Audience

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• There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

  Peter Ackroyd

  People, House, Waiting

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• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Hero, Character, Thinking

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• A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Character, Luxury

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• I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Character, Mean, Play

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Attitude, Black And White, Maturity

  "Giancarlo Esposito talks ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Revolution’ and Emmys". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

  Eliot Engel

  Cells, Adults, Needs

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• In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

  Emilio Estevez

  Technology, People, Brain

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview with Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

  Michael Ealy

  Moving, Bored, Trying

  "Michael Ealy Talks 'Underworld: Awakening' and Black Cinema". Interview with Nijla Mumin, www.indiewire.com. January 20, 2012.

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