Roles Quotes - Page 33

• The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

  Sam Altman

  Advice, Trying, Doe

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• I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

  Brian Chesky

  Ambiguity, Adviser, Comfortable

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• All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.

  Terence McKenna

  Animal, Anxiety, Feelings

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• So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Even though 'Heathers' didn't make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.

  Winona Ryder

  Play, People, Heathers

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• Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Leader, Wells

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow.

  Britney Spears

  Jobs, Kids, Thinking

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

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• People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

  Paul Sorvino

  Powerful, People, Want

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• In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

  Amit Bhatia

  Giving Up, Hero, Role Models

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• Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

  Epictetus

  Children, Leader, Parent

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• I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

  Rhys Ifans

  Taken, Reckless, Abyss

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• I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Journey, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2010.

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• It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.

  Hugh Jackman

  Play, Trying, Action

  "Hugh Jackman talks about how he gets into Wolverine shape". Interview with James Fell, www.latimes.com. May 23, 2014.

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• Over and over, since I was very young, I see things that are about to happen. You can call it heightened intuition; you can call it visions... I see it as a gift. It's my role to give people a heightened awareness, to show that basically we can change the world.

  Shari Arison

  People, Giving, Intuition

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• The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they've played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That's why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.

  Ben Stiller

  Stars, Caring, Names

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• Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Discovery, Data, Deep Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Syntactic Structures”, p.5, Walter de Gruyter

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• So often, trans roles don't even go to trans actors. Most of the fabulous trans roles that have won people Oscars, we didn't get to play. A lot of folks have said we're not trained enough and that we're not prepared to do whatever.

  Laverne Cox

  Play, People, Actors

  Source: variety.com

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• When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

  Morgan Neville

  Hero, Character, Writing

  "Interview: Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville on Sparking Debate with 'Best of Enemies'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. July 31, 2015.

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• I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they go, "Wait a second, you can't do that! That's a sin!," you go, "Okay, fine, we're not going to do that. We tried too far."

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  People, Waiting, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].

  Lake Bell

  Men, World, Found

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.

  Mark Consuelos

  Play, Interesting, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Creative, Maintaining, Producers

  Source: collider.com

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• Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

  Martin Freeman

  Insecurity, Actors, Courses

  "Martin Freeman Talks the Ring’s Impact on Bilbo, Being a Favorite for the Role & a Lot More on the Set of THE HOBBIT". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 25, 2012.

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• I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

  Alia Shawkat

  Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.

  John Noble

  Chosen

  Source: collider.com

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