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“Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.”

Long Two Water Sea Creatures Ocean Scientist Assuming Casts Repeats Usual Inches Exploring Generalization Fishy

Author:Arthur Eddington

“The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.”

Use Suffering Wish All Things Crosses Casts God Love

Author:John of the Cross

“Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.”

Heart Trouble Faults Casts Humble Discouraged Dwelling Humble Yourself

Author:Margaret Mary Alacoque

“See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.”

World Firsts Heart May Christian Interest Sin Study Duty Succeed Casts Stranger Flesh Chiefs Holiness Internals Great Work Seeming

Book:The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings

Source: The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings

“Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.”

Worship Lows Cat Casts Onions Obscene Manifold

Author:Rufus Choate

“The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.”

Feels Soul Helping Spiritual Life Is Meditation Conditions Divine Color Materials Depends Paint Casts Selfishness Wicked Spiritual Life Fragrance Enmity Divine Nature

Book:Meditation and Its Methods

Source: Meditation and Its Methods

“All of a sudden I found myself with the reputation of being a swinger and a home-wrecker. Beverly Hills wives were supposed to live in fear in case I cast my green orbs in the direction of their men. Ninety-nine per cent of this was total fabrication.”

Men Home Found Cases Wife Green Casts Nine Reputation Hills Cents Ninety Ninety Nine Fabrication Beverly Hills Orbs

Author:Joan Collins

“While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.”

Knows Men Want Should Trying Real Lost Wealth Justice Common Know How Land Property Casts Riches Common Good Real Property

Author:Saint Basil

“'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed.”

Way Firsts Shows Saws Casts Flames Broadway

Author:Josh Young

“I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!”

Mind Enough Powerful Talent Lucky Originals Moved Musical Casts Hip Hop Rap Theatre Storytelling Hips Combination Height Hops Latin Infusion Musical Theatre

Author:Josh Young

“Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.”

Heart Evil Nations Moral Millions Land Roots And Love Casts Voting Sentiments Ballots Truth And Love

Book:Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings

“Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.”

Wells Shows Remember Half Successful Development Offers Casts Not Interested Arrested Showtime

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“In terms of putting the cast together, no problems. You know, the only problem always is just price-point. Our ambitions as we get older, all of us, is to try and do more.”

Knows Trying Problem Together Term Ambition Casts No Problem

Author:Eric Fellner

“You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.”

Way Guy Too Much Casts Baggage Brad Everyman

Author:Andrew Dominik

“I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.”

People Thinking Hard Guy Roles Conflict Casts Hyper

Author:Andre Braugher

“When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.”

Said Bigs Wish Dying Foundation Casts Comic Ran Introducing Avengers Comic Con Make A Wish

Author:Clark Gregg

“When Dylann Roof walked into a black church, he wanted to start a race war. We didn't let him do that because we didn't cast him as a representative of the white race. We didn't give into his narrative. We did the exact opposite. And I think that we have to be careful not to give into the apocalyptic narrative of ISIS that wants to start a war between Muslims and everybody else.”

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Author:Chuck Todd

“I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.”

People Thinking Actors Depends Casts Variety

Author:Robert Loggia

“I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused on making the best possible movie we could, and earning the right to do more.”

Games Directors Hunger Casts Studios Focused Crew Earning

Author:Nina Jacobson

“There's always a great hue and cry when you sign onto a "remake," and that's always been sort of annoying me and freaking me out. This profession that we're in is drama. What drama has been since the beginning is, you restage plays with new casts, or a writer will take a new run at an old story.”

Has Beens Play Stories Running Cry Drama Casts Profession Annoying Remakes Hue

Author:William Monahan

“I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.”

Done Actors Teach Casts Rap Rapper

Author:Craig Brewer

“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.”

“Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.”

Writing Casts Comedian

Author:Sally Phillips

“Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.”

Wells Has Beens Shows Song Casts Connected

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.”

Ifs Faults Casts Albums Performers

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.”

Knows Way Writing Wells Actors Weakness Casts Strength And Weakness

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.”

Source: Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects

“John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.”

Wells Kind Doe Character Actors Left Term Directors Casts Interpretation Adjustment

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.”

Fire Failing Creatures Judgment Raised Islam Casts Punishment Living Creatures Perpetrators

Book:Dreamtigers

Source: Dreamtigers

“My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh.”

Life Is My Own News Hollywood Series Casts Valuable Fake Vegetables Anchors My Own Life Kabbalah Brunch News Anchors

Author:Jon Stewart

“I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.”

Long Sides Water Casts Bread Long Ago Both Sides

Author:Jesse Jackson

“You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.”

People Stories Walks Directors Casts Idiot Life Story

Author:Dane Cook

“The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.”

Wells Realizing Objects Photographer Casts Cinema Paradox Lenses Luminous Duration

Author:Andre Bazin

“An hour before I got cast in [Victorious] they called and asked if it'd be okay for them to do ANYTHING they wanted with my hair, even a blue mohawk or a bald head and I eagerly said yes!”

Ifs Said Wanted Hours Hair Okay Blue Casts Mohawks

Author:Ariana Grande

“I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.”

Ifs Want Important Actors Process Casts Work Out Screens Casting

Author:Andre Øvredal

“You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know in many ways that's enough for him and so, you go, ok, well, he saw something. Ok, what is it that he saw? What is it that I brought to this and why am I right for this and not trying to double-guess it and get in your own way and get psyched out, 'cause he trusts so much.”

Knows Way Trying Wells Enough Causes Saws Directors Casts Changelings

Author:Amy Ryan

“I was a hockey player, growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates. As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me.”

People Character Use Bigs Guy Actors Fun Growing Up Growing Player Protect Hollywood Moved Casts Size Maps Hockey Teammate Imposing Big Guys Hockey Player

Author:Kevin Durand

“The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.”

People World Different Shows Running Effort Groups This World Creating Casts Intense Zero Surprising Crew Runners Different Experiences Ground Zero Surprising Things

Author:Veena Sud

“On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.”

World Trying Humans Play Character Hands Jobs Actors Social Goal Responsibility Casts Ridiculous Changing The World Nails Trying To Change

Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“There's no drama. There's nothing. Everyone is there to work, everyone is really kind and everyone is very helpful, especially to me. I went in there, hoping to learn. I could have easily been put on some project with somebody who really doesn't care about teaching or sharing. But, while I was there, all of the cast were very helpful. I would constantly ask questions.”

Kind Care Asks Teaching Drama Projects Casts Helpful No Drama

Author:Steven Yeun

“You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.”

People Want Careers Casts

Author:Will Gluck

“I also really loved the friendship between these two women, and watching these two very different women working in this gritty male environment. That was really the reason that I wanted to be a part of it. And, I went in and met with the producer and the director that did the pilot, Mike Robin, and read with them. And then, I did a read with Angie Harmon, who was already cast. From the moment we read together, it just clicked. It was as easy as that.”

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Author:Sasha Alexander

“You don't often get what you ask for, and I got exactly that. I got a show that was on cable, that I could shoot five months a year and go be mommy the rest of the time, and be with a cast and crew that I really, really love, adore and respect. I got all of that.”

Years Shows Asks Five Months Casts Crew Adore Cables

Author:Angie Harmon

“A lot of people don't see me as a funny character because I don't usually get to play them. I'm usually cast in the more dramatic roles, so it's been a really, really fun time playing her humor and her attitude. She's a complete tomboy, so I did a really intense study on men and how they relate to each other, in the way they walk and hold themselves and position themselves in the hierarchy, just in something as simple as a conversation.”

People Men Way Play Character Fun Simple Walks Attitude Roles Study Position Conversation Casts Intense Relate Dramatic Hierarchy Fun Times Funny Character

Author:Angie Harmon

“One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.”

Knows World Want Kind Reason Age Able Actors Community Comedy Groups Drama Directors Casts Great Things Bridges Casting Casting Directors

Author:Alison Pill

“When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.”

Knows Writing Wanted Guy Scripts Casts Nervous Greek Auditions This Guy That Guy

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were looking for the actors, but my manager is pretty good at sorting that out. And, (casting director) Rene Haynes cast me in Into the West, and she's always kept in touch and been a real big supporter of my career.”

People Real Bigs Actors Process Careers Couple Directors Yeah West Casts Managers Auditions Supporter Casting Sorting Casting Directors

Author:Tinsel Korey

“Suddenly, I realized how tough trying to structure a story like this is. It was a lot of work. The one big advantage that we had was that we had eight scripts written before we started shooting, or even started casting. We had a really good opportunity to look at it and figure out where we were going to go and how to do it. Once we got a cast, which I love, then we started doing some revisions to make sure that they fit into it.”

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Author:Remi Aubuchon

“When we finally had a cast and could see what they could do, here was an opportunity to go back and modify things. We didn't actually do that much modifying, but we did enough to make it feel as if they fit in their own skin, and we got a lot of good input from them. They're a terrific cast. They worked really hard.”

Ifs Feels Hard Enough Opportunity Fit Skins Casts Terrific Input Modifying

Author:Remi Aubuchon

“There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously, the audience is, "Oh, this isn't so bad."”

Ifs Play Audience Danger Casts

Author:David Schwimmer

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