Quotes About Role

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything

Do I look like a metaphysician?" "You look like a guy in an office. What exactly do you do there, Wilf?

But the greatest cause of his acceptance of his role in Nazi Germany was, without any doubt at all, that he had a job again and the assurance that he would keep it.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem. And no matter what your role is, you've got some control over the situation.

Identity is going to play a role in nearly every change situation.

Forgive me, Sister, I said silently, you who are the unsung heroine of this tale, the one who has the tougher role: to wait and to worry.

Beginning with Van Buren himself, the heirs to Jackson saw the role of president as conciliator-in-chief, containing the elements that threatened the Union, often by concessions made to southern interests.

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

One U.S. senator has described Russia as "a gas station masquerading as a country"—and indeed, oil and gas play as large a role as ever.

describes the role of the product owner: "You must recognize that through your actions—writing user stories and acceptance tests, prioritizing user stories by business value, deciding which user stories are developed next, providing rapid feedback, etc—you

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Set a good example. Want to fuck yourself so that others want to fuck you too.

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

the role played by such individuals within the military trial system of the 1940s was as denouncers rather than witnesses – an important distinction.

imperial defeat turned the military into a powerful internal political lobby determined to find a new role while guarding against any loss of income or prestige in the interim.

My mother exaggerates as often as she can. I'm sure she would like nothing more than to be part of a Greek tragedy. She wouldn't even want a large part, she'd be perfectly content with a chorus role, warning that fate is coming to make havoc of all things.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Genetics plays a role in determining who gets an anxiety disorder, what type it is (e.g., worry, compulsive

Like the United States, China thought of itself as playing a special role. But it never espoused the American notion of universalism to spread its values around the world. It

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

ALL TWELVE POSTWAR presidents have passionately affirmed an exceptional role for America in the world.

The essence of building a constructive world order is that no single country, neither China nor the United States, is in a position to fill by itself the world leadership role of the sort that the United States occupied in the immediate post–Cold War period, when it was materially and psychologically preeminent.