"... everyone must play his role."

-- Anne Tyler

#Play Quotes #Roles Quotes

“As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.”

Source : "A Right Honorable Briton? Hardly, It Turns Out" by Warren Hoge, www.nytimes.com. February 04, 1999.
“As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.”
“When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.”
“I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio RamÃ³n Ribeyro used to say a mature novel demands the author's death, not literal death but metaphoric death, which is the author has to truly erase himself. Therefore, to be truly free, you have to break free from internal and external pressures, to erase the self completely and become a sort of medium, let the story pass through yourself and let the story dance with you.”
“Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole?”
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”

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