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• Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

  Mike Godwin

  Computer, Internet, Free Speech

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• Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Mother, Play, Available

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• I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.

  Muriel Beadle

  Believe, Intelligent, Should Have

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• For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Education, Children, Mean

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Husband, Home

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.

  Bat for Lashes

  Men, Interesting, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

  Michael Jai White

  White, Done, Looks

  "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.

  Gracia Martore

  Running, Organization, Keys

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• Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Responsibility, Citizens

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• Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Men, Envy

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Pride, Games, Actors

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I didn't want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who's waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different.

  Gal Gadot

  Girl, Heartbroken, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Growing Up, Role Models, Parent

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• For me, after emotionally intense roles, I'd need to take a step back because then there's the promoting of the film which is another job in itself.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Jobs, Needs, Steps

  Source: www.desdehollywood.com

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• I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.

  Bette Midler

  Stars, Doors, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

  Michael B. Jordan

  Trying, Acting, Sometimes

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• Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.

  Holly Hunter

  Real, People, Quality

  Source: deadline.com

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• There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued me like when "Burlesque" showed up at my door. Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. I've been intrigued by the time that it's set in, in the 20's, 30's, 40's and so I knew it was a no brainer for me to be a part of once I met with the team.

  Christina Aguilera

  Team, Book, Doors

  MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 12, 2017.

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• I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.

  Jim Sturgess

  Falling In Love, Distance, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

  Daniel Gillies

  Picks, I Can

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Experience matters for some roles and not others.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Matter

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• I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

  Rick Ross

  Motivation, People, Role Models

  "13 Questions With Rick Ross". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• I can't tell you how many couples I know where the husband and the wife are both in the military and have deployed together, and they've got kids, and so I think times have changed and gender roles have blurred when it comes to the military.

  Tanya Biank

  Husband, Couple, Military

  Source: www.glamour.com

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