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"My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed."
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
"I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are."
"The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential"
"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events."
"To restore silence is the role of objects."
"One must also acknowledge that there are moments in an organisation's development when fresh blood and new vision are required, which may imply that an outsider may be better suited to the leadership role."
"Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth."
"Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time"
"Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes."
"The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role impressed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them."
"Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it."
"Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress."
"I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles."
"Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right."
"The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect."
"Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up."
"There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance."
"I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy."
"I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles."
