Sam Neill (Nigel John Dermot Neill) Quotes
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.
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'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
