"When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it.""

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Richard Kind

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“Make good use of bad rubbish.”

Source : Elisabeth Beresford (2011). “The Wombles Go round the World”, p.127, A&C Black
“I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.”

Source : Source: www.bilerico.com
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
“I have made a sculpture â€¦ you will never be finished with it â€“ when you pass around it or see it against the skyâ€¦ something new goes on all the timeâ€¦ together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing.”
“Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?”

Source : "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
“Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (2012). “Invitation To The Waltz”, p.55, Hachette UK
“I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.”

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