Quotes About Role

I get to play a 58-year-old time-traveling assassin. The role had a lot of layers to it that I knew would be fun to break down and figure out the motives behind.

The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.

Once you come forward in the role of liberators, you will find that your strength in the war is enormously increased. -p201

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

His role (if he had one, which he sometimes doubted) was to provide a comparison with his elder sister Bridget.

So, the scholars are tedious, the experts never see the whole truth of things, still they have their role to play.

The 'role of the theatre' is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory. TOM STOPPARD 1993

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired virtues that were easy to maintain; assigned herself a role in the scheme of things; and harked back to simpler times for gratification.

Adam first, Eve next, and also, confused about her role, the first outlaw?

Never underestimate your role as a father. Remember, Dads, that your children's view of God will largely be dependent on their view of you.

However, for Keynes it had become self-evident that the best defense against political extremism and economic collapse was an increased role for the state, including but not confined to countercyclical economic intervention.

If government is the problem and society does not exist, then the role of the state is reduced once again to that of facilitator.

Stay here and do the packing and let the young one run all over California for you! Don't you always say the success of collecting is in the packing? You're the boss--take the most important role and stop moaning!

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Growing up in a family is a lot like stepping onto that stage in which everyone is ad-libbing. You have a part to play, but it's difficult to say at first exactly what it is because no one receives a script at birth. So you spend years figuring out what your role is without stepping on anyone else's toes.

mid-1950s, when Americans underwent an incredible transformation in how they understood the role of religion in public

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role.

She was, for the foreseeable future, unemployed. She had lost her role in one of the biggest blockbuster series in movie history. Her tits were on the Internet. She had slept with a reporter. Her ex-boyfriend, who was fast becoming one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, probably did not care for her right now. Buster whistled when she finally finished reciting the particulars of her unpleasant situation. "Not bad," he said. "Thank you," she replied.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story.

Lindell had seen too many of these women who subordinated themselves, but could also feel the temptation of giving in to a more traditional woman's role. It would be so easy to be like her mother. So seemingly secure.

It's hard to know who you are when you've been assigned a role so young. If your identity comes from what you do for other people, who are you when you're alone?

The collapse in evangelical doctrinal consensus is intimately related to the collapse in the understanding of, and role assigned to, Scripture as God's Word spoken within the church.