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“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Looks Ends Play Choices Three Roles Four Casts Villain Four Years

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.”

Feelings Choices Responsibility Weight Incredibles Adulthood

Author:Laura Marling

“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”

Ifs Country Matter Law Desire Choices Views Majority Intention West Iran Monopoly Benign Condescending

Author:Azar Nafisi

“As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.”

People Ifs Artist Choices Dare Outsiders

Author:Connie Nielsen

“I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.”

Way Believe Humans Play Choices I Believe Social Human Beings Environment Majors Conditioning Upbringing Genetics

Author:Kathy Najimy

“You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.”

People Thinking Choices Actors Access

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.”

Way Sometimes Hard Seems Choices Heal Best Way Keep Positive

Author:Petra Nemcova

“That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.”

People Writing Important Choices Given Nations Opinion Position Reader Perception Pages Publishers Columns Editorials Implicit

Author:Daniel Okrent

“It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.”

Wanted Young Choices Mum

Author:Denise Van Outen

“For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.”

Important Age Choices Actors Roles Adults Important Things Available Wide

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.”

Country Jobs Moving Choices Progress Creation Adversity Moving Forward Job Creation Times Of Adversity Maryland Forward Progress

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.”

People Made Choices Seeing Color Platforms Bright Colors Hope And Change

Author:Lilly Pulitzer

“Your choice of armor was your intellect.”

Choices Education Intellect Armor

Author:Alanis Morissette

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.”

Wells May Stills Today Lasts Choices Peace Community Chance Mankind Chaos Violent Annihilation Coexistence Last Chance

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Its all spirit and its all connected...Our choice is to live out of harmony with spiritual ways or in harmony with spiritual ways. Everything is spiritual.”

Way Spiritual Spirit Choices Spirituality Harmony Connected Our Choices

Author:William Commanda

“All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.”

Trying I Can Choices Actors Careers Instinct Guts Comparison Careers Choices

Author:Brandon Lee

“I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.”

People Thinking America Choices Stuff Voice Technology Changed Serious Healthy Organization Good People

Author:Brian Lamb

“The choices I make - they have to be creative.”

Choices Creative Be Creative

Author:Huey Lewis

“In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.”

Needs Choices House Car

Author:Xavier Niel

“I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.”

Character Film Faces Choices Interesting Cutting Projects Majors Theater Flags Dolls American Flag

Author:Amanda Plummer

“Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.”

People Thinking Should Made Book Ends Choices Reader Wings Spells Laurels Right Choices

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.”

Made Choices My Own Backgrounds Educated Supportive Family Life Family Background Supportive Family

Author:Cat Power

“I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.”

Knows Feels Happens Choices Roles Pieces Where You Are Single Women

Author:Sarah Paulson

“I was home-schooled and I graduated super-early. But I've always had older friends, so I got to go to all their dances. I got the best of both worlds. I had the choice to go to prom with a friend of mine and I decided not to because I was filming very close to that. But red carpets and the 'G.B.F' prom were so much better.”

World Home Choices Mines Red Decided Carpet Red Carpet Schooled Prom Best Of Both Worlds Older Friends

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.”

“I would say we are a friend in need and I am sure that the Greek people would very much welcome the choice of the British people to come and enjoy Greece, first of all, but also that would be a sign of support.”

People Needs Firsts Would Be Choices Enjoy Support British Welcome Greek Greece Friend In Need

Author:George Papandreou

“There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.”

Made Moments Certain Choices Nations Decades Choices Made

Author:George Papandreou

“Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.”

People Sometimes Reason Political Choices Born Religious Economic Pure Adults

Author:Jacques Pepin

“My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.”

People Thinking Men Mind Mean Choices Girl Born Sleep Pressure Dirty Subconscious Hypocrite Naughty Bisexual Bisexuality Never Sleep Hypocrit Dirty Minds

Author:Megan Fox

“Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.”

Mean Choices Universe Creative Judging Equal Interfere Creative Power

Author:Joy Page

“Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.”

Choices Growth Conditions Guarantees Stability Monetary Euro Membership

Author:Lucas Papademos

“Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.”

Wells Government Choices Next Term Differences Clear Development Election International Seats Labour Contests

Author:Lucy Powell

“As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.”

Ifs Faces Young Night Choices Five Four Week One Day Commitment My Family London Young Women Ifs And Mps

Author:Lucy Powell

“The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.”

Firsts Facts Problem Light Choices Clear Members Judgment Organization Scientist

Book:The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

Source: The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962

“When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.”

Years Hard Lasts Choices New York Rain Meetings Weather Ran League Diamond Last Year Competing

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.”

Want States Able Choices Church Accepting Practice Support Separation Church And State Separation Of Church And State

Author:Pauley Perrette

“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.”

“There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.”

Made Play Shows Wanted Choices Roles Tvs Ideals Doctors Let Me Tv Shows

Author:Amy Ryan

“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”

People Kind Persons Hands Used Artist Choices Direct Impression Used To Be Mainstream Cds

Author:Chance the Rapper

“You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Choices Three More Money Three Things

Author:David Rubenstein

“In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.”

Choices Cases Consequence God Love Grants Our Choices Immunity God Loves Us

Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.”

Choices Found Areas Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made.”

Made Choices Position Blame Satisfied Really Happy

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.”

I Can Choices Millions Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.”

People Choices Brain Conditions Size Transgender Physiological Hypothalamus

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.”

Ifs Men Choices

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I didn’t try to intimidate anybody. I wanted to inform my employees of what their future would hold if they make the wrong decision. I wasn’t threatening any of the employees. If they vote for Obama they’re not going to lose their jobs.”

Ifs Knows Needs Wanted Choices Worry Employee Wrong Choices

Author:David A. Siegel

“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.”

Writing Art Book Inspiration School Choices Stuff Views Point Of View Dialogue Crafts Plot Workshops Characterization Pacing Word Choice

Author:Garth Stein

“You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.”

People Two Choices Voice Creative Clean Studios Committees Sitcom Right Choices Make The Right Choice

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

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