Samira Wiley Quotes

The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

Samira Wiley

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Most newborn things are influenced by parents or even grandparents.

Jimmy Savile

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The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Rita Dove

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I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

Roy Halladay

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I feel that when you want to start attacking people or completely rejecting the people you see as not on the godly side, to me, that isn't God, and that isn't love.

Michaela Coel

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'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

Michelle Dockery

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A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.

Monica Dolan

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I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences for other people to be able to learn from them.

Misty Copeland

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I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

Jason Pierre-Paul

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Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Clement Mok

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Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.

Clive Sinclair

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I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

Bradley Walsh

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