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• It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

  Jayson Blair

  Race, Cases, Hard

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• I think that what's funny is that I seem to be taking up the roles that I remember my dad having - for some reason, I'm the one who makes the coffee, and my dad was always that guy. It's kind of shocking how closely I compare to my dad.

  James Mercer

  Dad, Coffee, Thinking

  "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

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• During the final two weeks of training, our students work simulated game situations in which our staff members role-play as players, managers, and coaches. They are given immediate feedback following each camp game.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Games, Two

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• It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.

  Robert Atkins

  Simple, Play, Energy

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• Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant.
  Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

  Bill Johnson

  People, Tolerance, Influence

  Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

  Ron Howard

  Thinking, Lust, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

  Amy Adams

  Artist, Interesting, Trying

  "2011 Golden Globe nominee for her performance role in The Fighter explains why becoming a mother has made her enjoy acting more". Interview with Travis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 15, 2010.

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• The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

  Wes Moore

  Play, Expectations, Bigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.

  Nina Dobrev

  Risk, Trying, Needs

  "Nina Dobrev’s New Chapter". Interview with Michael Peña, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Voice, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Interesting, World

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of view. So, it literally starts with the creature opening his eyes and is born - but is obviously in his 30s. But because they're the creator and the created we thought it would be really interesting if they could look at each other every other night and play each other's roles.

  Danny Boyle

  Eye, Night, Views

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.

  Dean Acheson

  Government, Europe, Special

  1962 Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec. According to the New York Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.

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• Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

  Marlon Wayans

  Body, Working It, Ready

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.

  Virginia Madsen

  Queens, Real, Character

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

  Colin Firth

  Way, Environment, Old Fashioned

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.

  Mandy Moore

  Hands, Trying, Pieces

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.

  Luke Wilson

  Fun, Drama, Opposites

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

  Anne Hathaway

  Mistake, Kids, Role Models

  "Anne Hathaway Talks The Devil Wears Prada". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 28, 2006.

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• I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

  Anne Hathaway

  Responsibility, Role Models, Fans

  "Anne Hathaway Talks The Devil Wears Prada". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 28, 2006.

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• You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.

  Keira Knightley

  Matter, Mass, Murderer

  "Keira Knightley Talks Pride and Prejudice". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• I know it's going to sound like a cliché, but the key of successful playing a role is to sort of keep it real and earnest and react the way that one would react in those situations. Where the disconnect between the movie and the audience would happen is if you go too big or too crazy with that stuff.

  Jay Baruchel

  Crazy, Real, Successful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

  Grace Jones

  Attitude, Thinking, Animal

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

  Joan Cusack

  Smart, Good Woman, Friendly

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Trying, Different, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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