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#1. Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

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#2. I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

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#3. Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

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#4. I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me.

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#5. A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.

George Boas

#6. Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.

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#7. I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.

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#8. As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

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#9. You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

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#10. Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

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#11. Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

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#12. Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.

Leon M. Lederman

#13. Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

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#14. I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.

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#15. One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

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#16. Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey ... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.

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#17. VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.

Samuel Beckett

#18. I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

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#19. Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Ricardo Semler

#20. Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#21. I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.

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#22. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

Missi Pyle

#23. I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

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#24. I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.

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#25. The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

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#26. We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

William Lloyd Garrison

#27. I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

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#28. There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

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#29. The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

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#30. Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.

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#31. Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

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#32. I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

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#33. There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

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#34. When we radiate the warmth of our love-energy, our compassion-energy on the planet, we shine the qualities of our Source!

Michael Beckwith

#35. Convince a man to take a single step - after all, what earthly difference could one step make? - and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.

R. Scott Bakker

#36. At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

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#37. Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

Billy Sunday

#38. For an age we stood there like that, me holding him by the collar of his jacket and kissing him for all I was worth, him standing there, hands up like I was frisking him with no idea what to do about it.
It. Was. Awesome.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#39. I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

Kitty Carlisle

#40. Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

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#41. I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

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