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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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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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while-but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!
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What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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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.
