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“Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.”

Mind Long Sometimes Dream Behinds Brain Forgotten Casts Fancy Forgotten Things

Author:John Dryden

“Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.”

Humans Long Sometimes Light Energy Leadership Dark Shadow Casts Empowering Intensity Enlightening Elusive Bright Lights Enigmatic

Book:Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

Source: Toxic leaders: when organizations go bad

“It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.”

People Acting Casts

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Wine is a sign of happiness, love and plenty, how many of our adolescents and young people sense that these are no longer found in their homes? How many women, sad and lonely, wonder when love left, when it slipped away from their lives? How many elderly people feel left out of family celebrations, cast aside and longing each day for a little love?”

People Love Feels Littles Home Happiness Young Found Left Wonder Lonely Wine Longing Casts Plenty Each Day Celebration Elderly Left Out Little Love Happiness Love Sad And Lonely

Author:Pope Francis

“There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even Ganga) has cast so vast a spell on me.”

Middle Strange Rivers Profound Casts Spells Bihar

Author:Sukanta Bhattacharya

“I don't have any children, but if I had a baby, I would have to name it, so I would get a baby-naming book. Or I would invite somebody over who had a cast on.”

Ifs Children Book Names Baby Casts Invites

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.”

Add Casts Insult Injury Signing Insult To Injury

Author:Demetri Martin

“Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse of ignorance, which has cast its dark shadow over thousands of years of human suppression.”

Knows World Years Humans Has Beens Religion Humanity Religious Dark Ignorance Shadow Casts Curse Suppression

Author:David Icke

“Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.”

Evil Force Religious Doubt Events Evidence Casts Currents Truism Current Events

Book:Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness

Source: Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness

“If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.”

Ifs Two Pieces Casts Rough God Exists

Book:Broken for You

Source: Broken for You

“I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.”

Feels Wells Ends Pain Wish Black Loss Color Hollywood Casts The End Of The Day Oh Well Labeling Love Loss

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.”

People Long Reason Character Hands Film Offers Long Time Casts Reason Why Suggestions Casting Selected

Author:Alexander Payne

“Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.”

Directors Casts

Author:Richard Gere

“My mom actually didn't let me read any women's magazines growing up. She also didn't let me see Pretty Woman. She thought that I was going to want to be a hooker. So, instead, I just got cast in Scary Movie.”

Want Growing Up Growing Mom Let Me Casts Scary My Mom Magazines Pretty Woman

Author:Anna Faris

“Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.”

Film Wish Perfect Direct Dresses Casts Novelists

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.”

Persons Wanted Process Roles Casts Painful Diaries Right Person Rum Prestigious

Author:Amber Heard

“Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs to be muscular they tend to cast a regular sized actor and get him to hit the weight program as opposed to hiring an actor who's already muscular and developed in that area.”

Needs Actors Roles Taken Areas Program Weight Bigger Casts Come Up Hiring

Author:James Preston Rogers

“If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.”

Ifs Knows Moments Shows Pain Actors Lost Talking Television Smart Casts Ass Bullshit Television Shows

Author:Ray McKinnon

“Prayer changes things. It moves in the atmosphere. The bible says whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth, you loose in heaven. And I loose it. I speak into existence everything I want. And I bind it. And I cast out everything that is not right. So absolutely. My faith is all that I had, all I have and all I will have to hold on to.”

Want Earth Moving Speak Heaven Prayer Existence Bounds Casts Atmosphere Prayer Changes Things

Author:Patrice Lovely

“At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.”

Feels Building Pure Creating Foundation Chaos Scripts Casts Narrative Cinema Filmmaking Documentaries Creating Something

Author:George Hickenlooper

“Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.”

Type Directors Casts Likes Relaxed Woody

Author:Letty Aronson

“I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible.”

Book Fans Huge Instruments Series Incredibles Casts Mortals Heroines

Author:Lily Collins

“The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy that they were excited.”

Way Mind Book Real Vision Fans Instruments Casts Excited Real Life Mortals Twilight Harry Potter Honored Positively Potters Very Positive

Author:Lily Collins

“If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.”

Ifs Film Fighting Battle Casts Uphill Battles

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.”

Way Feels Trying Littles Long Different Suffering Fun Fame Starting Casts Burden Heavy Long Way Starting Out Gimmicks Heavy Burdens

Author:George Harrison

“The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.”

Years Mean Littles Problem Running Faces Joy Courses Hours Shadow Casts I've Learned Daily Life Marathon Sprint

Author:Jon Foreman

“The wonderful thing about digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn't matter what my face looks like, or my age. It's really liberating.”

Ifs Looks I Can Soul Matter Play Character Age Film Faces Process Wonderful Casts My Soul Digital Wonderful Things Liberating

Author:Jim Carrey

“I remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been acting since they'd been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they'd put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you're young.”

Firsts Hard Feelings Would Be Remember Film Young Acting Achievement Gains Casts Harry Potter Potters Amused Crawling Gaining Confidence Harry Potter Film

Author:Bonnie Wright

“I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.”

People Knows Important Plans Talent Casts Crew

Author:James Gunn

“I was watching an interview with Martin Scorcese concerning Raging Bull, which is one of my favorite films, and he was talking about how he'd worked with a lot of guys who weren't quote-unquote "actors," like Joe Pesce and Frank Vincent. Scorcese was very smart in the way that he cast, because you don't know where you're going to find the right person who can carry a role and summon that emotion you're looking for.”

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Author:Lenny Kravitz

“The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.”

Wells Heart Important Quality My Heart Directors Important Things Scripts Casts Excited

Author:James McAvoy

“I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do when they hire you because you have something that's useful to the part, and then they leave you alone. The times that I've run into trouble is when, very rare actually, but you get hired and then there's some sort of makeover involved.”

Wells Running Left Trouble Involved Directors Casts Left Alone Good Directors Makeovers

Author:Christopher Walken

“An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.”

World Eye Audience Stage Dangerous Cold Paid Casts Secure Dangerous Things Cold Eyes

Author:Christopher Walken

“I'm a producer on my show, which is great, but it's also kind of a mixed blessing because there's so much responsibility. Everything is a decision. You have to worry about the money, you have to worry about daylight, who we're going to cast and if this location doesn't work out, what are we going to do?”

Ifs Kind Shows Decision Responsibility Worry Blessing Casts Work Out Producers Location Daylight

Author:Demetri Martin

“Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.”

World Humanity Strength Weakness Casts Veils Thoughts And Words

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.”

People Ifs Book Enough Shows Rooms Audience Comedy Directors Theater Casts Agents Comedian Good Enough Casting Stand Up Comedy Stand Up Comedian

Author:Jim Jefferies

“You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.”

Faces Comedy Directors Casts Fake Pretty Face

Author:Chris Rock

“When you have a cast and crew of people who make it light hearted and crack jokes, and break treats, and understand that we are all in this together. That's a biggest plus that you can have.”

People Light Together Break Jokes Treats Casts Plus Cracks Crew Hearted Light Hearted

Author:Jill Scott

“When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.”

Writing Play Whole Actors Audience Stage Involved Bottom Casts

Author:Jules Feiffer

“It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.”

Children Done Speak Difficult Argument Our Children Casts Our Family Your Children Speaks Out

Author:Otis Moss III

“I think they should make Twilight closets and all the cast members can walk out of them.”

Thinking Should Humor Funny Walks Members Casts Twilight Closets Cast Members

Author:Chelsea Handler

“It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.”

Play Humor Funny Film Guy Walks Roles Wife Casts Ruins That Guy Revolver

Author:Tina Fey

“If prose can cast a spell, we will listen to it no matter what it's saying. If a narrative uses language in a magical and enlivening way, we will listen to the story. But if the language doesn't cast a spell, we will listen to it only if it is telling us something that actually happened.”

Ifs Way Matter Stories Use Language Happened No Matter What Casts Narrative Prose Spells

Author:Lorrie Moore

“I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.”

Looks Persons Form Mother Dies Given Regret Paid Casts Compensation Anchors High Prices

Author:Marco Pierre White

“Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.”

Members Argument Vote Congress Casts Rejected

Author:Steve Israel

“Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.”

Firsts Humor Funny Remember Sin Rocks Casts

Author:Dave Chappelle

“I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.”

Trying Real Done Film Actors Environment Approach Casts Authenticity Exploring Short Films

Author:Tom Green

“I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.”

“In addition to encouraging us to participate in narratives of "deservingness" that cast large parts of our constituencies as "undeserving," legal reform strategies encourage us to valorize harmful systems that our movements should be seeking to dismantle.”

Should Movement Strategy Casts Seeking Reform Narrative Undeserving

Author:Dean Spade

“When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.”

Ifs Years Made Jobs Acting Careers Four Week Tvs Needed Decided Casts If I Could Take Me Protected Surf Morris

Author:Thomas Haden Church

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