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• I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

  Dan Trachtenberg

  Character, Ideas, Firsts

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

  Julie Halston

  Thinking, Doe, Actors

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It is so cool to have a fanbase that has been so involved since the casting process.

  Jade Hassoune

  Process, Has Beens, Involved

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Grateful, Being Real, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history.

  Tariq Ali

  Fall, Discipline, Culture

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I never get tired of looking at her [Catherine Keener] and it always surprises me, despite how many hours of film I've shot on that face. She's fantastic. She does comedy and tragedy so equally well. She wears her feeling so on the surface for both. I try to stop myself from casting her but I just keep coming back to her. She's just so fantastic to work with.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Tired, Feelings, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

  Nicolas Cage

  Names, Office, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

  Arnold Bennett

  Baby, Memories, Past

  Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”

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• Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

  Janet Fitch

  Night, Magic, Dawn

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

  Carl Safina

  Thinking, Fishing, Two

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.130, Macmillan

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• Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

  Lefty Kreh

  Mistake, Lakes, Sea

  Lefty Kreh (1991). “Longer Fly Casting”, Lyons Press

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• Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward some goal. Look very closely to discover tense feelings and nervous thoughts whirling around inside. Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.

  Vernon Howard

  Goal, Creative, Feelings

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• Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

  Bruce Mau

  Beautiful, Children, Fun

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• Local casting is just something I love doing.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Locals

  "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

  Andrew Marvell

  Soul, Doe, Body

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 7

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• The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Struggle, Past

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Kings, Children

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.50, Moody Publishers

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• Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.

  Ernest Gold

  Night, Views, Practice

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• Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Hair, Hands

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Manifestation is an act of trust. It is the soul pouring itself out into its world, like a fisherman casting a net to gather in the fish he seeks; with each cast properly made, we will bring what we need to us, but first we must hurl ourselves into the depths without knowing just what lies beneath us.

  David Spangler

  Lying, Knowing, Soul

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• Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Time, Past, Looks

  "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman to "TamilSydney", www.sangam.org. January 7, 2008.

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• As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Men, Age

  Mark Twain (2010). “Who Is Mark Twain?”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Player, Born

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• Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

  Anna Lappe

  Money, World, Want

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• The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.

  Willie Brown

  Moving, One Direction, Political

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