Role Quotes - page 10

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. (Osamu Dazai)
You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end. View quote
Danilo Kis
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives. View quote
Daniel Dennett
It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing. View quote
David Levithan
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps. View quote
James Heckman
I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late. View quote
Jennifer Donnelly
I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role. View quote
Gerard Butler
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform. View quote
Gerard Butler
I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope. View quote
Jerome Groopman
It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel. View quote
Jordan Peele
If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one's role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way. View quote
MC Hammer
The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. View quote
Etgar Keret
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!' View quote
Carl Hiaasen
As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. View quote
Kathryn Stockett
Tori joined us for dinner --in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it. (Kelley Armstrong)
At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction. View quote
Kim Cattrall
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized. View quote
Clara Zetkin
I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role. View quote
Christopher Meledandri
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls. View quote
L.J. Smith