"A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me."

-- Stan Smith

#Taken Quotes #Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.”

Source : Craig Murray (2007). “Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror”, p.335, Simon and Schuster
“Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.”
“There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.”
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”
“I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.”
“Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.”
“I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.”

Source : "Miranda Cosgrove Talks DESPICABLE ME 2, Returning to Animation, Why She Loves the Minions, and the End of ICARLY". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2013.

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