Sam Neill (Nigel John Dermot Neill) Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I have a great office.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.
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What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
