Peri Gilpin Quotes

Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.

Peri Gilpin

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Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.

John David Washington

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Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

John Hurt

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With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.

Mike Birbiglia

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Miles Franklin

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'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Lord Byron

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You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.

Donald Sinden

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

Craig Brown

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You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

Colin Powell

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There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Brett Favre

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Fully implementing the WTO trade facilitation agreement is one ingredient to reduce border delays and costs for traded merchandise.

Arancha Gonzalez

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To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.

Atul Gawande

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I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.

Wynonna Judd

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