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• When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. So when 'Weeds' took off, I was so happy. Especially as I was just a guest star in the pilot. But once it got picked up, they made me a regular cast member.

  Kevin Nealon

  Weed, Stars, Expectations

  "A Minute With: Kevin Nealon returning to stand-up comedy". Interview with Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Iraq, Rights

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Thinking, Interesting

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• I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

  Chris Noth

  Roots, Working Together, Bigs

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• Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Perfect, His Love

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Believe, Numbers

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Roles, Feels

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• Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

  Pope Paul VI

  Anger, Nests, Stones

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• Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

  Miuccia Prada

  Light, Shopping, Bored

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

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• As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast.

  Chris Pratt

  Long, Care, Ifs

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

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• Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Shadow, Covering

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• I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Views, Different

  "Daniel Radcliffe Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1". collider.com. November 16, 2010.

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• After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

  John Ratzenberger

  Children, Breathing, Mind

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• When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

  Jimmy Reid

  Government, Downing Street, Wings

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• I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.

  Jason Reitman

  Fun, Play, Directors

  "Jason Reitman’s ‘Live Read’ Series to Bring ‘The Apartment’ to New York This Month". artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. April 03, 2012.

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• I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

  Christina Ricci

  Girl, Pretty Girl

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• Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

  Alan Rickman

  Wicked, Witch, Features

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• I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Lucky, Widows, Ensemble

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• Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

  Salman Rushdie

  Might, Gaddafi, Wanted

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• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Taken, Rights, Holocaust

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Moving, Men

  Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.1, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.

  William Safire

  Writing, Mean, Two

  "How to Read a Column" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2005.

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• I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

  Zoe Saldana

  Ensemble, Stories, Want

  "Colombiana: Zoe Saldana Speaks!". "Movie Fanatic" Interview, www.moviefanatic.com. August 25, 2011.

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• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Dog, Art, War

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• Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, People

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