There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep… — George Washington Copy Share Image
'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time… — Richard Harmon Copy Share Image
Knowing that I was the first version of Misty Knight, a character that was created 40 years ago is one thing. But… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself… — John Adams Copy Share Image
After 'Jessica Jones' came out, I started hearing firsthand from a lot of women who were so inspired by the character, who… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
What HAPPINESS Means... To A Poor Barefoot Person, Happiness Is A Pair Of Shoes. To a Person With An Old Shoe, It's… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I always thought that Bray Wyatt, who had the most creative characters that he came up with it - it was a… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once… — Brianna Hildebrand Copy Share Image
Kim's' gave me my first opportunity to portray an Asian character with significant story arcs and subtleties that most Western Asian actors… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around,… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
“Edward Tylor noted in 1874 that the religions of “savage” societies were “almost devoid of that ethical element which to the educated… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain.… — Shuler Hensley Copy Share Image
I think when you're a new actor in Bollywood, it's about seizing the moment. If you can prove to the audience there… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long… — Leisha Hailey Copy Share Image
Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
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![“[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around, some of the characters that he would have played. I mean, to me he was like a rock star, you know, he had it all: he had the looks, he had a great name, he had an attitude, an energy, an…” quote by Jim Sturgess](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/315/jim-sturgess-15511_attitude_on-river-phoenix-i-would-love-to-see-wha_1835907.jpg)
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