- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won't be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are virtually no females who would be able to lug a fallen male solider weighing 200 pounds naked, before donning battle equipment, 200 yards out of the line of fire.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.
- Diminishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't even get with John Coltrane. Audiences are diminishing more and more rapidly. Some of the top young musicians with something new to say can't get record companies to put out their stuff.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020