Quotes and Sayings About People
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I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
-- Aaron Tippin -
Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
-- Aaron Tveit -
I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
-- Aaron Tveit -
People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,
-- Aaron Tveit -
I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
-- Aaron Tveit -
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
-- Aaron Tveit -
That's the thing about stage: It's something you can't find anywhere else. It's a two-and-a-half, three-hour experience, and it's a real relationship. You're sending out energy from the stage, but the audience is giving you back so much also, so that's also lifting you and pushing you forward as you're performing and giving you so much energy. You can't find it anywhere else, and that's why people get addicted to being on stage, and when they're not on stage are kind of looking for that and constantly searching for it.
-- Aaron Tveit -
Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.
-- Aaron Tveit -
In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
-- Aaron Tveit -
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
-- Aaron Yoo -
When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
-- Aaron Yoo -
People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
-- Abba Eban -
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
-- Abba Eban -
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
-- Abbe Pierre -
I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.
-- Abbey Lee Kershaw -
There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
-- Abbie Cornish -
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
-- Abby Sunderland
