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• The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Character, Men

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

  George P. Shultz

  Shadow, Tables, Negotiation

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• It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

  Rob Sheffield

  Doctors, Triangles, Love Triangle

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• Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Pieces, Way, Grew

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• I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Want, Score

  "Maestro of Broadway". Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

  Stephen Sondheim

  People, Sometimes, Producers

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• The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Player, Rocks, Cities

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• Ever since I became a Muslim ... I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.

  Cat Stevens

  Character, Doubt, Trying

  The Guardian, March 29, 2005.

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• I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.

  Kristen Stewart

  Children, Kids, Two

  "Woman on the Verge". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. September 1, 2011.

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• He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

  Emma Stone

  Excited, Imagine, My Favorite

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• When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Weed, Character, Focus

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• The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

  David Friedrich Strauss

  Christmas, Reality, Miracle

  David Friedrich Strauss (1846). “The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined”, p.11

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• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Men, Church On Sunday

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Christian, Angel, Light

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2012). “Last Judgment: Are We Living in the End of Days?”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Jobs, Perfection, Doubt

  "Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.

  Lewis Thomas

  Character, Needs, Want

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• Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

  Gene Tierney

  Girl, Careers, Chinese

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

  Gabrielle Union

  Years, Trying

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• As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Waiting, Actors

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• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

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• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Scandal, Complicated

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  John Woolman

  Strong, Men, Understanding

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Light, Cast Away

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.558, Simon and Schuster

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• Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mind, May, Stills

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 81 (1939)

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• The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Life Changing, Snakes

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