Figures Quotes - Page 29

• I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.

  Josh Hartnett

  Mistake, Trying, Actors

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• Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

  Isla Fisher

  Compliment, Undies, Spanx

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• The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Acting, Sitting, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Struggle, Kids

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• So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out..There were record breaking temperatures across the, 72 in New York City, 69 in Boston on Saturday. A lot of people wondering is it global warming or something much simpler?

  Meredith Vieira

  Running, New York, Thinking

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• I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

  Josh Gad

  Powerful, Thinking, Stories

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• I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Work Out, Favors

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• It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Military, Reading

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.103, Routledge

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• My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dad, Father, Champion

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

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• When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions. I saw myself picking up the phone and saying 'Absolutely not' or 'Definitely yes.' Having control. Except you have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn't progressing. So now I'm relinquishing a bit. I'll be a tiny bit naked.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Phones, Ideas

  "Robert Pattinson Shows Us His Sexy Side in Details". Details Magazine, www.popsugar.com. February 13, 2010.

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• I will normally eat about seven or eight mince pies in one sitting. Sometimes, I can get to double figures. My friends, and probably most people, stop at two, so they probably dislike me a bit for it.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Eight, Dislike Me, Two

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• I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

  Debi Mazar

  Legs, Littles, Pants

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• I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

  David Oyelowo

  Historical, Black, Legacy

  "'In my head, this is massive'". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

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• Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

  Kerry Washington

  Support, Directors, Different

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• I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Ocean, Hands, Mind

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• Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

  Pharrell Williams

  Feelings, Want, Feels

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

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• At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?

  Tom Piazza

  Mother, New Orleans, Sick

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• No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

  Marlene Dumas

  Pain, Mean, Pleasure

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• The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.

  Charles Loomis Dana

  Mistake, Character, Science

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• Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Eye, Emotional, Two

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• One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Bulls, Steps, Zeitgeist

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• Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

  Conrad Hyers

  Family, Children, Irritation

  Conrad Hyers (2003). “The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

  Laura Mvula

  Dad, Cocky, Thinking

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• They do tricks even I can't figure out.

  Harry Houdini

  Law, Tricks, I Can

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