Supporting Roles Quotes - Page 2

• Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role.

  Neelie Kroes

  Europe, Play, Competition

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• When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Responsibility, Play, Volunteer

  "I long to be a good wife but can't find anyone to marry me" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.

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• I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Giving, Roles

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• Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Kings, Men, Good Man

  "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,

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• Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

  Michael Pollan

  Hero, Believe, Acting

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

  Steig Larsson

  Character, Two, People

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• I'm always open to not necessarily to do leading roles because I want to do roles that are the best, character role. And sometimes, it's not going to be a leading role. It's going to be a smaller, supporting role. So really, I'm open to doing anything.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Character, Roles, Want

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• There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

  Robin Weigert

  Comfort, Roles, Certain

  "Sundance Interview: Concussion - Directed by Stacie Passon, Produced by Rose Troche, Starring Robin Weigert". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

  Walt Disney

  Stars, Roles, Theme Parks

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