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Amanda Foreman Quotes

Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

Game Chance You Skill Bank Always

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

Jimmy Garoppolo

Practice Think Important Prepare How

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

Chance Never Director Room Get Very

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

Ego Want Kind Actor Accepted Says

Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.

Growing Up World Growing Up Get

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

John Cassavetes

Day World Think Better Pictures Own

Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

John O. Brennan

Strike Military Follow Borders Carry

I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.

Treat Look Animals Way Race Human

I've always been known in my family as the one who imitates the crazy Dominican relatives.

Family Crazy Always Relatives Been

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

Time Myself Long Back Long Time

I don't start a song with an idea of what ingredients are going to go into a song. It's not like a recipe. I will normally either talk from personal experience or I'll make a character and then try to allow that character to behave the way he or she naturally would.

Character Experience Song Start Go

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Good Child Me Think Remember You

One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.

Person Worst Being Fears

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