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• I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fighting, Conquer

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• Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.

  Diablo Cody

  Ice, Wish, Storm

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• Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anchors, Anxiety, Care

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• What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

  Chris Cornell

  Jesus, Thinking, Stones

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2009

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• For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Fall, Taken, Cutting

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• I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

  Willem Dafoe

  Odd One, Guy, Looks

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• It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

  Mos Def

  Apples, Grandfather, Movement

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• I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Criminals, Defense, Roles

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• I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

  Lena Dunham

  Acting, Balls, Wonderland

  "Lena Dunham and Producer Judd Apatow Talk HBO Series GIRLS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  Idris Elba

  Thinking, Looks, Levels

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• If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

  Tina Fey

  Reading, Opportunity, Night

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Writing, Voice, People

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• 'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Ensemble, Great Friend

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• I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

  Colin Firth

  Birthday, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Maturity, Years

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Attitude, Close Friends, Streets

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• When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Meat, Vegetarian, Absolutes

  "Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

  Ron Fournier

  Memories, Alaska, Names

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• I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

  James Franco

  Thinking, Self, Younger Self

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• Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

  Robert Frost

  Fighting, Hands, Stones

  Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

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• Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

  Stephen Fry

  Coffee, Moving, Machines

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• Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

  George Galloway

  Order, President, Als

  "Thom Hartmann: IV with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.scoop.co.nz. May 30, 2005.

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• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  Adam Garcia

  Inspirational, Dance, Laughter

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

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  We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

  Judy Garland

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

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• I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, Thinking, Nervous

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. June 7, 2007.

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