"For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Jessica Raine

#Roles Quotes #Scripts Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.”
“When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.”
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”

Source : "The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy" edited by Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988.
“Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.”
“British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.”

Source : 1066 and All That ch. 57 (1930). Coauthored with R. J. Yeatman.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

Source : Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814
“One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.”
“Iâ€™ve done all kinds of cool things as an actorâ€”Iâ€™ve jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebodyâ€™s daddy.”

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