- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think they do it all by themselves but I believe there is more to it. I believe it is God who has given me the talent and the opportunity to be successful.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's really important is the people, first of all. I like working with people who are kind, above all else. I don't really want to work with someone who will manipulate me. The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020