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• I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

  Michael Jai White

  White, Done, Looks

  "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.

  Michael Jai White

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.

  Gracia Martore

  Running, Organization, Keys

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• Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Responsibility, Citizens

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• There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Thinking, Technology

  "Policing task force calls for 'de-escalation' training" by David Nather, www.politico.com. March 2, 2015.

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• What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving, Grace, Unnecessary

  'Particularly Cats' (1967) ch. 9

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• The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

  Shinzo Abe

  Leadership, Japan, World

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• Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Men, Envy

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Character, Play, Diversity

  Source: collider.com

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• I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

  Gal Gadot

  Daughter, Role Models, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who's waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different.

  Gal Gadot

  Girl, Heartbroken, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Growing Up, Role Models, Parent

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Growing Up, War, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

  Helen Mirren

  Want Something, Long, Water

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• For me, after emotionally intense roles, I'd need to take a step back because then there's the promoting of the film which is another job in itself.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Jobs, Needs, Steps

  Source: www.desdehollywood.com

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• I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.

  Bette Midler

  Stars, Doors, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.

  Michael Eklund

  Real, Character, Space

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• Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

  Michael B. Jordan

  Trying, Acting, Sometimes

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• Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.

  Holly Hunter

  Real, People, Quality

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

  Curtis Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Role Models

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• I find it really interesting that people are shocked by the raw, natural representation of a woman and a man's body. I guess it's subverting our expectations in terms of how we've come to expect women to present themselves when they're being naked. Also the woman's and the man's role is subverted in that image. You'd expect the man to be carrying the woman.

  Bat for Lashes

  Men, Interesting, Expectations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most people do not actively use their brains. They passively let their feelings and thoughts control their lives. They don't invent new ways to use their brains, either, settling instead for the same routine and repetitive thoughts every day. But if you master all four roles, you create your super brain. When you are the active observer of your feelings and thoughts, you become the user of your brain. Your super brain then serves you, not vice versa.

  Deepak Chopra

  Play, People, Inspire

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• I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Media, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong, Children, Mean

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued me like when "Burlesque" showed up at my door. Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. I've been intrigued by the time that it's set in, in the 20's, 30's, 40's and so I knew it was a no brainer for me to be a part of once I met with the team.

  Christina Aguilera

  Team, Book, Doors

  MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September 12, 2017.

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