Lead In Quotes - Page 5

• My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

  Harvey Keitel

  Thinking, Advice, Actors

  "Moment Of Truth In 'Youth' Hits Home For Actor Harvey Keitel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 5, 2015.

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• If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Fighting, Iraq

  President Bush's Fort Bragg Speech, North Carolina, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

  Katherine Center

  Struggle, Way, Young

  Interview with Angie Mizzell, angiemizzell.com. June 16, 2009.

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• Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.

  David Roediger

  Taken, Groups, Stories

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Men, Play

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• Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just about climbing and business. It is about two people in love who switch leads in life’s hard climb. A great read—inside or outside a tent!

  Jim Whittaker

  Climbing, Class, Two

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• I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.

  Jeremy Lin

  Dirty, Mean, Godly

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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• On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as a counterbalance ... with a shotgun.

  Lester Piggott

  Horse, Racing, Ears

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• The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Opportunity, America, Race

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

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• I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Years, Two, Three

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

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• Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Book, Agreement

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, 1980.

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• It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Heart, Men

  Arthur Miller (1996). “Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition”, p.134, Penguin

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• I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.

  M. C. Escher

  Thinking, Delight, Path

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• You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Together, Band

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• You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a lot of rules there, literal and implied, that you have to navigate.

  Michael Ian Black

  Games, Architecture, Cases

  "Michael Ian Black on the many versions of 'himself'". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. October 22, 2013.

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• I dont want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

  Jiah Khan

  Play, Long, Want

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• The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment

  John Sculley

  Ideas, Leader, Tests

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• One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

  Paul Krugman

  Education, School, Support

  "Ignorance Is Strength". www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2012.

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• Now there are reports that Osama bin Laden would like to commit suicide on television. This is the kind of lead-in I have been praying for every since I came to CBS. Bin Laden is planning a televised suicide or, as I call it, hosting the Academy Awards.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Awards, Television

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• Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Leader, Musical

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• As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

  Woody Allen

  Uncles, Fun, Play

  "Woody Allen Talks TO ROME WITH LOVE, the Importance of Music in His Films, How He Feels About Improvisation, and His Outlook on Retirement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2012.

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• First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

  James Cromwell

  Skills, Giving, Trying

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• The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.

  James Cameron

  Energy, World, Nations

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Every human being was created to dominate and lead in an area of gifting.

  Myles Munroe

  Gifting, Humans, Areas

  Source: encomium.ng

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