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The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

~Alan Rosenberg

Topics: Ability Actor Displacement Earn Living Obstacle Programming Reality Scripted Series Severe Working

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I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: About Care Constant Displacement Everything Existence Guaranteed Instability Love Sense Wait I Love

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I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Age Class Differs Displacement Environment Ethnicity Eyes Further Gender Little Look Makes Me Myself Observer Prefer Put Sharper Social Social Class Someone Think Through Who I Think

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I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

~Ana Castillo

Topics: Also Am Asked Being Chicago Displacement Life Psychologically Sense Spent Very Where Whole

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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: About Been Child Clearest Course Displacement Had Impossible Impressions India Made Our Parents Self-Serving Stayed Stories Virtue Vision Would

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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: About Ambivalence Displacement Evasion Everything May Move Much Place Really Subject Write Writing I Write

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I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.

~Anya Taylor-Joy

Topics: Actually Back Displacement English Family Given Home Hoping Learn Life Living London Me Moved Now Really Refused Same Same Time Send Sense Suits Time Tough Two Years

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I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there's this sense of displacement - I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.

~Anya Taylor-Joy

Topics: Able Been Belong Displacement Fit Kind Know Lucky Many Much None Outsiders Places Play Quite Roles Same Same Time Sense Somewhere Them Time Understand Very You

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Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There is always an apprehension that opportunities will go down. There are apprehensions of displacement. Many of these apprehensions are unfounded.

~Arundhati Bhattacharya

Topics: Also Always Apprehension Bank Banks Displacement Down Even For The People Go Lot Many Opportunities Other People Which Will

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It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

~Atom Egoyan

Topics: About Abstract Displacement Feels He Moment Off Sense Television Turns Very

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