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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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
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Being hardworking is the best thing you can show children.
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I think Kyle Chandler is something of a national treasure.
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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.
