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My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. For instance, 'Phantom Of The Opera,' in truth, scared the crap out of me, but I wasn't going to walk away and say, 'I didn't do that because I didn't believe in myself.'
Gerard Butler
Truth
Myself
Character
Me
Problem
Walk
Challenge
Believe
Difficult
Say
Out
Find
Scared
Emotion
Take
Instance
Talents
Opera
Because
Very
Role
Going
Crap
Whether
Away
Phantom
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams
Leadership
Justice
Peace
Equality
Ability
Part
Leadership Role
Towards
Fein
Sinn
Sinn Fein
Role
Movement
Popular
Play
In life, everything just happens, and I believe even before we are born that our role in life has already been determined. My main ambition is to continue to write music, which helps me to evolve in a spiritual sense and hopefully to inspire others.
Gerry Rafferty
Life
Music
Spiritual
Me
Inspire
Before
Ambition
Sense
Believe
Others
Our
Everything
Evolve
Hopefully
Born
Determined
Write
Main
Continue
Been
Role
Just
Happens
Which
Even
Helps
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Wonderful
Pay
Given
Only
Like
Opera
Also
Singers
Well
Contention
Audience
Command
Fit
Lots
Itself
Role
Much
Rehearsals
Play
Wider
Wider Audience
The Bucks and John Hammond chose me in the draft, got me in the NBA, kept me in the team with a role from my very first season, and they are my basketball family.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Family
Me
First
John
Bucks
Got
Very
Role
Team
NBA
Chose
Season
Draft
Kept
Basketball
The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.
Gijs de Vries
Terrorism
Fight
National
Role
Authorities
Central
Against
I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.
Gillian Jacobs
Thought
Past
Drama
Would
Would-Be
Never
Comedic
Role
We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.
Gina Raimondo
Positive
Try
New Things
Everybody
Way
Embrace
Attack
Idea
Crush
New
New Idea
Doing
Role
Going
Behind
Just
Where
Keep
Now
Play
Things
I am not going to take a role because there's money. It might extend my checkbook, but not my integrity.
Gina Rodriguez
Integrity
Money
Take
Because
Am
Role
Going
Might
Extend
I felt very vulnerable after 'Sleeping with the Fishes'; I gained weight for the role. I felt a bit out of my skin in the movie, and it was hard to watch.
Gina Rodriguez
Skin
Sleeping
Bit
Out
Weight
Vulnerable
Felt
Fishes
Very
Role
Movie
After
Gained
Hard
Watch
I want to play a big role on special teams, too.
Glenn Gronkowski
Big
Too
Role
Want
Special
Teams
Play
I'm expecting big things from our bowlers, from Peter Siddle, who plays the enforcer role, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee when he gets fit again. In batting, there's Phil Hughes, whose already done well for Australia and scored hundreds for Middlesex.
Glenn McGrath
Big
Our
Hundreds
Batting
Clark
Johnson
Stuart
He
Well
Mitchell
Lee
Fit
Australia
Role
Expecting
Hughes
Gets
Done
Big Things
Again
Who
Peter
Whose
Things
Phil
Plays
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.
Gloria Steinem
Men
Picture
Fathers
Way
Tried
About
Having
Masculine
Masculinity
Missed
Talk
Talking
Because
How
Real
Limits
Fit
Role
Often
Want
Loving
Them
Groups
Present
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
Gloria Steinem
Work
Women
Experience
Benefit
Able
Having
Remain
Could
Perhaps
Comfortable
Traditional
Been
Questioned
Very
Role
Did
Children
Who
I never had a great role in a great film.
Gloria Stuart
Great
Great Film
Never
Had
Role
Film
I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don't like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.
Gong Li
Love
Freedom
Character
Woman
Personality
Strong
Own
Believe
Difficulties
Changed
Guess
Way
Destiny
Find
Some
My Own
Shaping
Part
Like
Always
Am
Role
Modern
Want
Chinese
Many
Things
Defeated
I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.
Gordon Brown
Truth
Future
Faith
Welcome
Truth Is
People
Witness
Country
Building
Our
Unpopular
Bearing
Particular
Catholic
Least
Role
Often
Being
Communion
Hard
Helping
Even
Play
Conscience
Britain
I think Caltech fills a unique role, and it's not a cheap one. Their small size allows them to do interdisciplinary work a lot more effectively than anyplace else I know. The bigger universities get cast into silos.
Gordon Moore
Work
Think
Else
More
Small
Cast
Cheap
Know
Lot
Effectively
Than
Role
Get
Size
Bigger
Them
Unique
Fills
Universities
I was told by many well-wishers not to do the film because my role was just a cameo. But it's very important to be part of big, successful films like 'Holiday.'
Govinda
Important
Big
Films
Part
Like
Because
Cameo
Very
Role
Just
Holiday
Successful
Many
Film
I don't mind playing even a grandfather provided the role is good.
Govinda
Good
Mind
Provided
Role
Grandfather
Even
Playing
Growing up, I didn't have older sisters or many strong female role models to look up to. Being an adult now and looking back, I realize how much I wanted someone like that.
Grace Helbig
Strong
Looking
Looking Back
Older
Back
Strong Female
Someone
Adult
Like
Look
Female
How
How Much
Up
Role
Sisters
Role Models
Models
Being
Wanted
Realize
Much
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Now
I feel feminine when I feel feminine. I feel masculine when I feel masculine. I am a role switcher.
Grace Jones
Masculine
Feel
Am
Feminine
Role
I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal.
Grace Jones
Attitude
Myself
Man
Animal
Face
White
Think
Frame
Kind
See
Purple
Color
Role
Green
Where
Want
Paint
Play
Defenders of Wilson are correct to beg for context when considering his legacy. But it is they who ignore the context: the role Wilson played in using war, including Haiti's racist counterinsurgency, to nationalize white supremacy, militarism, and Christian evangelism.
Greg Grandin
War
White
Christian
Considering
Correct
Wilson
Haiti
Supremacy
Context
His
Beg
Legacy
Role
Ignore
Militarism
Who
Evangelism
Using
Including
Played
Defenders
Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?
Greg Kinnear
People
Comedy
Job
Other
Drama
Say
Kind
Guy
Volley
Weight
He
Feel
Like
Him
Around
Always
How
Role
Person
Trying
Same
Regardless
Whether
Who
Thing
Here
Playing
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.
Greg Kinnear
Try
Type
Find
Make
Concerted Effort
Effort
Role
Really
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