Sam Kinison Quotes
I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.
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I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.
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It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
