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TAYLOR SCHILLING I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
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AL MELANSON I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and...
RUFUS SEWELL In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
SAM TRAMMELL I played outfield in high school a little bit.
STEVE CLEVENGER He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who ...
RYAN GIGGS I played a lot better. I played a lot better than I had played in the last three games. I felt like ...
CAITLYN BAGGETT It was kind of awkward at first because a lot of us played against each other for a lot of years in ...
JAKE WORLEY There's a theory of acting that these parts are really all hidden inside you, and just depend on wha...
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CHAD HARBACH 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 I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
JIM FOWLER I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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LAURA MVULA I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come...
VINCE VAUGHN I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.
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DAMIAN MOSS I knew him a lot of years in grade school,
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STEFAN EDBERG I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
EVE ARDEN This is a great win. That's a Division I school that has three wins we just beat. There's a lot of p...
JIM HENSON I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
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JOHN MAHONEY I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
KATE BURTON Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They'...
EDIE FALCO Particularly at this school, it's a good way to stay competitive and to keep playing sports. A lot o...
JACK GAYNOR A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even ...
ANSEL ELGORT I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
SALLY KELLERMAN I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
JACK LAYTON I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
LAURA DERN It was worthwhile. I felt we got a lot of out it because we played against teams we've never seen be...
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ROBIN WRIGHT I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for...
NATE ROBINSON In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.
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GEENA DAVIS He was a guy who had a lot of character within the game of baseball and played the game right, playe...
JAY BELL I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.
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ROBERT GALBRAITH I know we're going to jell together now. It wasn't only the injured players coming back. With the lo...
JAMIE SIMINSKI I played Little League in junior high and high school.
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VIN DIESEL I certainly wasn't the idol of millions. I just happened to get good parts. And so I wasn't worried....
JAMES WHITMORE I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.
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LARRY VIEIRA I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like ...
JACK WHITEHALL In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of cho...
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THOMAS RHETT I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
DABNEY COLEMAN I was comfortable with the words, ... Most times I find myself trying to rewrite parts of my charact...
KIRSTEN DUNST It's going good, I like it. That's what I played mostly in high school so it's going alright for me ...
CHASMAN DAVIS Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a th...
RAM CHARAN Obviously, I don't get crazy after beating her, but she meant a lot to me when I played in high scho...
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MARGARET EBSON I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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LOGAN MANKINS I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played...
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Liv...
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But 'twas not love w...
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And drink of Adam's ale.
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As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
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And from the hipp
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She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.
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Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face...
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The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye wi...
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And often took leave; but was loth to part.
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...
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We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top...
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The tawny-throated!
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...
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The Alpine peasants, two and three,
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...
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With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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troublesome.
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We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
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a butterfly.
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It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
Th...
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the world."
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- Matthew Prior,
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(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
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here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
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names and impossible loyalties.
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My humble tomb explore!
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...
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MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
MATTHEW DESMOND When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the...
MATTHEW LEWIS I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...
MATTHEW SCULLY I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h...
MATTHEW VAUGHN I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog...
MATTHEW MODINE I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD My rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
MATTHEW GREEN Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I ...
MATTHEW STEWART I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous...
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