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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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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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
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For me, it's about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you're trying too hard and I don't think that actually makes you look good... I've known from very early on that I don't look perfect.
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There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
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My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.
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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.
