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• I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Lucky, Widows, Actors

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• All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Color, Sky

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• It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, "Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?" And he was like, "No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is."

  Steven Yeun

  Tv Shows, Being Thankful, Gigs

  Source: collider.com

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• If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, May

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight.

  John Densmore

  Garden, Thinking, Two

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• First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.

  Michel de Certeau

  Wall, Moving, Journey

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.98, Univ of California Press

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• The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

  Ernest Renan

  Lying, Creating, History

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• The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Makeup, Men

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12466, Delphi Classics

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• We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Beach, Growing Up, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Great Friend, Busy

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• I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

  Zoe Saldana

  Stories, Want, Casts

  "Colombiana: Zoe Saldana Speaks!". "Movie Fanatic" Interview, www.moviefanatic.com. August 25, 2011.

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• When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Comedy, Talent, Theater

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

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• I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Plot, Stories

  Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 1999.

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• Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame

  Nina Garcia

  Over You, Jewelry, Proportion

  Nina Garcia (2010). “Nina Garcia's Look Book: What to Wear for Every Occasion”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

  Lena Headey

  People, Needs, Comedy

  "Lena Headey Talks Sexy Vamps, Her New Flick and More". Interview with Stacie Ponder, www.amc.com. 2009.

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• All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

  Henry Petroski

  Design, Elements, Assumption

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

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• Interest and proficiency in almost any one activity-swimming, boating, fishing, skiing, skating-breed interest in many more. Once someone discovers the delight of mastering one skill, however slightly, he is likely to try out not just one more, but a whole ensemble.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Swimming, Fishing

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• If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Thinking, Yield, Feet

  "Executive Life; Learning Teamwork By Making Music" by Amy Zipkin, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2003.

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• When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

  Paget Brewster

  Scene, Rough, Shows

  "Criminal Minds' Paget Brewster Gets a Devil of a Storyline". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. March 11, 2009.

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• In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Stars, Roots

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.220, A&C Black

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• I've always preferred Marvel over DC. I just relate to their characters better. I mean look at Wolverine, at first he was just a bit player in an ensemble cast. Now he's the only reason people read X-Men. Just like me and Scrubs.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Mean, Player

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• No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Musical

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• Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

  Edie Falco

  Important, Actors, Littles

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• I don't have any tattoos - I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can't stick to one ensemble, I don't think I could stick to one tattoo.

  Dree Hemingway

  Tattoo, Thinking, Sticks

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• The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight he has invented for his characters - in the juxtaposition of those characters and in the lifelike ramifications of the ensemble they make: their density, their substantiality, their lived existence actualized in all its nuanced particulars, is in fact his thought metabolized.

  Philip Roth

  Lying, Character, Novelists

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

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