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I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
Martin Landau
Home
Bat
Run
Would
Could
Take
Like
Felt
Always
Got
Pinch
Hit
Role
Hitter
Decent
Home Run
Believed
Chance
I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.
Martin Landau
Home
You
Sometimes
Believe
Bench
Bat
Run
See
Like
Because
Sound
Gotten
Been
Hit
Role
Person
Get
Frustrating
Certain
Unimaginative
Home Run
Right
Chance
I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.
Martin Landau
Down
Gene
Hackman
Adventure
Times
Offered
Role
Want
Movie
Upside
Upside Down
Boat
Turned
Four
If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.
Martin McGuinness
Vote
Border
Citizens
Imperative
Retain
Democratic
Partition
Leave
Provide
End
Irish
Role
Poll
Right
Britain
The Cern laboratory in Geneva was set up in 1955 to bring together European scientists who wished to pursue research into the nuclear and sub-nuclear world. Physicists then had greater clout than other scientists because the memory of their role in the Second World War was fresh in people's minds.
Martin Rees
War
Together
Memory
People
World
Research
Other
Minds
Physicists
Pursue
Had
Wished
Geneva
Greater
Because
Fresh
Scientists
Up
Laboratory
Than
Role
Clout
Then
Who
European
Nuclear
Second
Bring
World War
Set
Second World War
That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.
Mary Badham
Strong
Important
Male
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Children
Growing
Growing Up
I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.
Mary Balogh
Character
Book
Sometimes
Challenge
Setting
Other
Chaotic
Bit
Characters
Finding
Minor
Some
Main
Main Character
Head
Develops
Know
Well
Another
How
Am
Least
Existence
Exists
Role
Quite
Story
Working
Series
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
Mary Daly
Future
Time
Women
Space
Rule
Everywhere
Outer
Outer Space
Allegedly
More
Writers
Beyond
Most
Been
Role
Get
Space And Time
Patriarchy
Which
Far
Create
Even
Appears
Imaginative
I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so I'd love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Love
Hero
Action
Think
Too
Heroine
Heroines
Out
Kind
Would
Find
Superhero
More
Perfect
Masculine
Like
Female
Real
Overly
Lot
Intelligent
Times
Role
Action Hero
Play
Things
Necessarily
Need
I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Work
Myself
Demanding
Control
Unless
Way
Complex
Telling
Something
More
Point
Could
Never
Had
Taking
Come
Always
Doing
Handle
Than
Role
Going
Bigger
Interesting
Realized
Certain
Certain Point
Started
I don't enjoy jazz guitar in general. I don't enjoy listening to a lot of it. I don't enjoy the tone. In general I've found its role in jazz to be kind of difficult.
Mary Halvorson
Guitar
Be Kind
Listening
Jazz
Enjoy
Difficult
Kind
General
Lot
Role
Found
Tone
I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her for her role in 'Black Swan.' From there, I continued to build and expand the method itself along with the business, always looking for ways to share the workout with others around the world.
Mary Helen Bowers
Beautiful
Business
Training
World
Black
Long
Looking
Build
Met
Others
Ways
Finishing
Share
Columbia
Along
Around
Always
Ballet
Method
Natalie
Continue
Began
Itself
Expand
Role
After
Swan
Workout
Preparing
Her
I love all the 'Twilight' characters. I can watch Kristen Stewart and think, 'I want to be that role someday.'
Mary Mouser
Love
Think
Characters
Someday
Role
Want
Twilight
Watch
Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.
Mary Pilon
Will
Go Away
Never
Football
Like
Boxing
Occupy
Go
Role
American
Just
Different
Zeitgeist
Away
I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.
Mathieu Kassovitz
Time
Myself
Enough
Enough Time
Pretend
No Interest
Spokesman
Role
Anybody
Interest
Hard
Speaking
Playing
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
Matt Bomer
Character
You
Think
Defense
Attorney
Always
Role
Play
Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
Matt Bomer
Character
You
Think
Well
Motivating
Ultimately
Role
Playing
For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.
Matt Bomer
Character
White
Every
Collar
Tried
Brought
Over
Years
Very
Role
Six
Certain
White-Collar
Show
Fun
Even
Keep
Elements
Tone
Set
It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.
Matt Bomer
Great
You
Rare
Arc
Role
Get
Play
It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
Matt Damon
Director
Three
Enough
Those
Definitely
Exact
Look
Role
Get
Same
Any
Which
Scripts
Them
Really
Things
Two
Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.
Matt Dillon
Good
You
Say
Make
Course
Gotta
Role
Movies
Gonna
I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.
Matt Holliday
Work
Good
Leadership
Great
Work Hard
Try
Example
Leader
Think
Way
Though
Results
Leadership Role
Look
Got
Role
Behave
Just
Should
Hard
Good Example
Set
I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.
Matt Letscher
Myself
Needs
World
Important
Society
Too
Our
Born
Fact
Important Role
Role
Clowns
Them
Play
Resigned
My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
Matt McGorry
Day
Character
Black
One Day
Absolutely
New
Doing
Opposed
Role
Orange
Being
Body
Body Fat
Requires
Fat
The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.
Matt McGorry
Truth
Character
You
Reality
Comedy
First
Think
Sympathize
Drama
Approach
Way
Wears
Pretty
More
Invested
Allow
Emphasize
Like
Look
Audience
Sake
Dull
Quickly
Role
Any
Whether
Ground
I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.
Matt Mullenweg
Great
Responsibility
Important
Think
Independent
Web
Privilege
Role
Really
Platform
Serve
Extent
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