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Olympia Dukakis Quotes

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Olympia Dukakis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: June 20, 1931

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God Experience Energy Think Find

I'm very delighted they didn't choose to do the very musical episode of 'Once Upon a Time' when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn't have been the best girl for the job!

Joanna Garcia

Girl Time Best Job Choose Been

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

John Lydon

Music Language Greatest Something

I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it.

Trombone Shorty

Age Chance Think Doing Early Never

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

Travis Fimmel

Grow Actor Grow Up Up Little Kids

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

Tom Hanks

Live Sea Sail People Pride Ship

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

Michelle Yeoh

Hope Blessed You Artist Find Actor

I love making 'iCarly' - it's so much fun, and I love getting the script every week and not really knowing what insane thing I'm going to be doing. It's just like an adventure every episode; that's really fun.

Miranda Cosgrove

Love Adventure Fun Doing Week Going

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Luc de Clapiers

Man Wish Difficult Would He Esteem

Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Good Memories Food Evening White

In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

Anne Dudek

Job Me Think Better Feel I Can

As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.

Peter Cullen

Voice Drama Page Young Actor Radio

Certainly, you envy the guys that have done all kinds of things, a variety of good scripts and good directors. Then again, having worked with Cassavetes has satisfied a big part of that.

Peter Falk

Good You Envy Done Satisfied Big