Small Parts Quotes - Page 2

• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, London

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

  Freddie Highmore

  School, Tvs

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• I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?

  Kathryn Hahn

  Anchorman, Cameras, Done

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• I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

  Jane Lynch

  Real, Fans, Agents

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• This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Islands

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• As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mother, Son, Brain

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• My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

  David Morrissey

  Office, House, Looks

  "Is this it?". Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Sorry, Years, Leaving

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• Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  History, Events, Way

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• A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower.

  Jill Shalvis

  Bed, Bigger, Caught

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Mar 04, 2013

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• Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in that area. I did indeed want to work on shows like "Sesame Street" and I am honored to be even a small part of that legacy, but I also wanted to do characters that had wider vocabulary and satirical humor.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Children, Character, Vocabulary

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

  Pete Seeger

  Mirrors, House, Tree

  Source: portside.org

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• I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.

  Lilli Palmer

  Views, Imagination, Actors

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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• When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.

  Ernest Sosa

  Writing, Knowing, Long

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

  Kate Morton

  War, Book, Different

  Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Simple, Rocks

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

  Herman Melville

  Long, Quality, World

  Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick, the Whale: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Father, World

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• My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Phones, Owl

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• I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.

  Alia Shawkat

  Fun, Teenager, Years

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, France And England, World

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.

  William Gibson

  America, People, Would Be

  Source: craphound.com

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• In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taught Us, World, Lessons

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Doe, Process, Farmers

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