Jamie Bamber Quotes
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
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They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. Will they lie, or bluff, or panic, or wilt? Or will they continue to function with some modicum of competence and integrity?
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People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.
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When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
