Sam Ewing Quotes
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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I find the business world hard.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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It is processes that are important.
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There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.
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It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
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America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
