"Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others."
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"I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do."
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"Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy."
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"I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids."
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"Success in one role can't justify failure in another."
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"I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold."
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"I only know how to play one role: me."
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"I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment."
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"I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway."
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"It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show."
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"The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos."
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"The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over."
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"This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer."
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"One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models"
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"Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role."
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"My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself."
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"The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information."
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"As soon as something like Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' appears with a Muhammad figure as the main lead, directed by an Arabic Theo van Gogh, the controversial late Dutch filmmaker, we will have taken an enormous step forward."
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"In 2009, I didn't like that Yamaha signed such a young and competitive teammate [Jorge Lorenzo]. But now everything is different. We are more mature. Everyone knows his role and position. Things are clear."
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"I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it)."
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