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Hodor," said Hodor.
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I turned.
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COBIE SMULDERS
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... AL PACINO 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha...
CHRIS ISAAK
Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionall... TAYLOR LAUTNER
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FISHER STEVENS In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to b...
RACHAEL HARRIS
It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And no... BEYONCE KNOWLES With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make...
BELLAMY YOUNG
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KEN STOTT Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has a...
ADHIR KALYAN I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I gue...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It help...
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I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of part... ELIZABETH WILSON
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ELVIS DUMERVIL
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I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in ... KEKE PALMER
I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With ... EDGAR ALLAN POE
I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research b... MATT DAMON
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I can't quite relate to this situation at all. I hated my character, which I had never had before. ....
JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN
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AMANDA WOLKE
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...There are bad novels and good novels, as there are bad pictures and good pictures; but that is th... HENRY JAMES Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS...
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I'm sure it would be fun annihilating all my enemies too. I'm not really drawn to that, but as a cha... ADRIEN BRODY Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surpr...
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o... S. E. HINTON I thought this was a great victory because it showed a lot of character. It was all about our work e...
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My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both real... TIA MOWRY I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
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I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any... PIERCE BROSNAN There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work...
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Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the s... NENE LEAKES In the end of the game, when they started to make the run, our character came out. We made our foul ...
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I... ADAM BEACH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to ... VERONICA ROTH
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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TIKA SUMPTER
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he say... ALFRED HITCHCOCK I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script...
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I had a lot of questions, but they were more about the character than the plot. Greg and I talked a ... COURTENEY COX I'm not out of the game because of the way I play. The character issues and stuff like that has real...
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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact... BILL GATES I'd never thought much about a series, because I liked the idea of picking a script I liked with...
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first a... LANCE GROSS If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that charac...
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The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS
I turned.Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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MADDIE HUMPHREY A really great album came out of it, but what it did was leave all these other tracks that I'd done ...
GLENN TIPTON
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. LANCE ARMSTRONG
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