"I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in."
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"Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role."
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"I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in."
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"My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes."
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"Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything."
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"That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction."
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"I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given."
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"In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge."
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"The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life."
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"The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote."
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"Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models."
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"For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality."
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"I’m not much a role model in terms of hair care, though."
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"All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars."
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"I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch."
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"We see President [Donald] Trump actually reclaiming the proper role of the executive, and undoing a lot of damage that was done to the economy through excessive executive action by President [Barack] Obama."
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"Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good."
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"Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species."
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"I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time."
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"It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do."
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