Small Parts Quotes - Page 7

• A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Teacher, Memories, Latin

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• I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

  Heidi Klum

  Baby, Goal, Acting

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• Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.284, Melville House

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• You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

  Amy Sedaris

  Character, Air, Watches

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• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  Vaclav Havel

  Leadership, Powerful, Hero

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

  Jim Henson

  School, College, Years

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• I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.

  Cory Monteith

  Running, Jobs, Blood

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Enough, Break

  Brian Tracy (2014). “Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)”, p.69, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Goal

  Og Mandino (2011). “Og Mandino's University of Success: The Greatest Self-Help Author in the World Presents the Ultimate Success Book”, p.339, Bantam

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• Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

  Alec Guinness

  Opportunity, Theatre, Actors

  Alec Guinness (1997). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Viking Press

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• There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.

  Brent Iverson

  Fun, Focus, Design

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• Of the whole sum of human life no small part is that which consists of a man's relations to his country, and his feelings concerning it.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Life, Country, Men

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• It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

  Frederick Douglass

  Collaboration, Philanthropy, Whole

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• Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Long, People

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• A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Language, Embrace, Dictionary

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• There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

  Sidney Lumet

  Actors

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

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• Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

  William James

  Men, Use

  William James (1918). “Selected Papers on Philosophy”

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• These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small part of the economic system, brings about a situation which the government itself — and the people who are asking for government interference — find worse than the conditions they wish to abolish: the people who are asking for rent control are very angry when they discover there is a shortage of apartments and a shortage of housing.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, People

  "Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow".

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• What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.

  Vincent of Lerins

  Christian, Catholic, Church

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• Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

  David Livingstone

  Sacrifice, People, Debt

  David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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• How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Attitude, Shapes

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 12, 2017

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• I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Religious, Exercise, Doctrine

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• Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.

  Melinda Gates

  Fighting, Play, Trying

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• Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid’s history

  Marco Reus

  Real, Madrid, Barca

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