Gillian Tans Quotes

With any previous transition we made with technology, it hasn't been the case that we need less people.

Gillian Tans

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On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

John C. McGinley

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Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

Trevor Donovan

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People who get together, regardless of other structures, will find something in common. They are bound to. That was the Pete Seeger let's-all-sing theory.

Ry Cooder

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I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

Mika

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

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Fun is good.

Dr. Seuss

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Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

Chris Carmack

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And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Brittany Murphy

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It took me a while to get over 'Highway'. I started living the character of 'Veera' very closely. I don't think I would be able to give so much to a character the way I did with her.

Alia Bhatt

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You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.

Alice Englert

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Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.

Svetlana Alexievich

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I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

Peter Thiel

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