Casts Quotes - Page 31

• It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Writing, Practice

  Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.97

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• What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.

  Wavy Gravy

  Fun, Decision, Engagement

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• I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter''s about butter carving in Iowa.

  Ashley Greene

  Stars, Fun, Iowa

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• The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

  Brian Greene

  Mean, Needs, Way

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• It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Moving, Character

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• Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Land, Interesting, Comedian

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• All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, People, Torches

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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• I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Men, Strange Man, Strange

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• I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

  Jesse Jackson

  Long Ago, Water, Sides

  1984 Addressing black voters, NewYork, 30 Jan.

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• There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

  LeBron James

  People, Foundation, Asking

  Interview With Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

  Mindy Kaling

  Romantic, Feelings, Looks

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• You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

  Anna Kendrick

  Football, Teenager, Silly

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• I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Play, Superhero, Madness

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• In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

  Denis Leary

  Years, People, Challenges

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

  Ang Lee

  Couple, Firsts, Stories

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• 'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members.

  Kellan Lutz

  Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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• Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

  David Lynch

  Character, Opportunity, Stories

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• But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

  Jose Marti

  Greed, Soul, Sun

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• I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

  James McAvoy

  Looks, Pieces, Faces

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• I'm constantly meeting people who said that they cast their first vote for me, or that they cut their eye teeth on the 1972 campaign, or that they didn't vote for me but admire my positions.

  George McGovern

  Eye, Cutting, People

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• I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

  Sienna Miller

  Girl, Thinking, Purpose

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• There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

  Wentworth Miller

  Cells, Yards, Inmates

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• I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous.

  Helen Mirren

  Stars, Kind, Gorgeous

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• Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Country, Brother, Party

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• People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

  Robert Mugabe

  People, Soldier, Campaigns

  "Mugabe slams Blair, vows free vote". Interview with Jeff Koinange, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2005.

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