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“Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.”

Writing Sometimes Play Seems Roles Revision

Author:Ellen Hunnicutt

“The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.”

Writing Roles Presses Jew Israel

Author:Norman Podhoretz

“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.”

Ifs Thinking Different Play Would Be Actors Challenges Roles Type Aspire

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.”

Matter Roles Democracy Importance East Regions Asia Strategic Pacific Taiwan East Asia

Author:Annette Lu

“I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.”

Persons Play Earth Interesting Roles Quitting Down To Earth

Author:Bela Lugosi

“I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.”

People Want Actors Interesting Roles Mines Theater Very Interesting

Author:Derek Luke

“My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.”

Way Want Children Roles Shoes

Author:Diane Lane

“The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.”

Play Earth Roles Messages All Things Worms

Author:Gary Larson

“A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.”

Thinking Humans Long Important Beautiful Form Roles Long Time Ugly Tendencies Categories Long Time Ago Unimportant Lumps Interconnectedness

Author:Gary Larson

“I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.”

Mean Roles Drama Conflict Dirty Inner Conflict Devilish

Author:Amanda Plummer

“I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.”

Needs Persons Play Careers Roles Products Proud Mass Lows Likes Cups Tea Cups Of Tea

Author:Amanda Plummer

“People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.”

People Film Roles Figures Majors Models Los Angeles Blonde

Author:Monica Potter

“I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.”

Wells Care Kids Levels Roles Habit Exercise Healthy Eating Stress Role Models Modeling Good Habits Eating Healthy Stress Levels

Author:Monica Potter

“Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.”

Important Play Roles Musician Frustrated

Author:Ronald Perelman

“The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.”

Persons Easy Roles Easier Silly Comedic Easy Going

Author:Sara Paxton

“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 love playing odd roles.”

Roles Odd

Author:Aaron Paul

“The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.”

Littles Hard Dies Actors Bits Roles Little Bit Hardest Hardest Thing Fruition

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.”

Want Feels Believe Long Play I Believe Challenges Roles Surprise I Believe In New Things Toes Pigeons Versatility

Author:Archie Panjabi

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.”

Girl Roles Models Role Models Looking Forward Being A Role Model

Author:Janel Parrish

“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.”

Character Happens Choices Actors Levels Roles Wonderful Tvs Projects Theater Series Financial Obvious Consistent Paychecks Tv Series

Author:Jim Parsons

“On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.”

Thinking Wells Character Able Roles Once Upon A Time Leading Ladies

Author:Lana Parrilla

“Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.”

Firsts Guy Fall Girl Roles Military Training Prepared Falling In Love Soldier Excellent Transsexuals Juilliard

Author:Lee Pace

“If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.”

Ifs Loses Roles Hollywood Quitting Tattoo Costco

Author:Megan Fox

“You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.”

Knows Three Roles Vices Tire Chairman

Author:Michel Patini

“2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.”

Years Roles Saws Fantastic Great Year

Author:Oliver Platt

“I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.”

Thinking Kind Different Young Girl Roles Models Role Models Different Kinds

Author:Megan Fox

“National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.”

Wells Government Roles Rights Obligation Sovereignty Entitlement Forfeit National Sovereignty Entitlement Programs

Book:An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror

“Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.”

Would Be Stuff Roles Comedy Risk Huge Intense Lighters Playing Roles

Author:Sarah Polley

“I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.”

Kids Roles Models Role Models

Author:Susan Powter

“I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.”

Feelings Happens Roles Danger Comic

Author:Todd Phillips

“The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.”

Form Culture Roles Who We Are

Author:Wendell Pierce

“You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.”

Thinking Want Should Persons Facts Stars Roles Huge Office Picks Sitting Studios

Author:Aidan Quinn

“Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.”

Bigs Roles Tvs Actresses

Author:Aileen Quinn

“One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it.”

Knows Years Play Next Roles Study These Days Latin Evita

Author:Aileen Quinn

“I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.”

Thinking Roles Growing Civilized Civilized Society Women's Roles

Author:Sally Quinn

“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'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.”

Littles Different Play Jobs Fun Bits Roles Little Bit

Author:Ashley Rickards

“My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.”

Play Shows Light Would Be Able Roles Ideals Familiar

Author:Ashley Rickards

“I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that.”

People Thinking Done Numbers Roles Projects Breakthrough

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.”

Roles Approach

Author:Michael Rooker

“You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.”

Knows Remember Film Roles Know How

Author:Michael Rooker

“My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.”

Way Together Film Roles Cutting Style Design Directors Casts Tone Overview

Author:Jay Roach

“I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.”

Bigs Roles Blessed Big Movie

Author:Jeremy Renner

“I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.”

Knows Kind Roles Be Good

Author:Jeremy Renner

“There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.”

Stills Problem Bits Roles Taken Actresses

Author:Joely Richardson

“I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.”

Knows Want Play Age Girl Roles Darkness Week Crime Angel Experiments Categories Pregnant Investigators

Author:Leven Rambin

“It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.”

I Can Self Play Strong Difficult Roles Independent Princess Assured

Author:Leven Rambin

“A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.”

Persons Has Beens Bigs Spirit Roles Position Hierarchy

Author:Phylicia Rashad

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