Sam Huntington Quotes

Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.

Sam Huntington

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Courage
  • Tolerance
  • Test

• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Test

• Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

  

  Ted Knight
  • Crazy
  • Retired
  • Anytime

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Song

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Test

• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

  

  Vernon Law
  • She
  • Experience
  • Teacher

• The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Black
  • Actor
  • Test

• When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Single
  • Sometimes

• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Friends
  • Affection
  • Test

• You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Fear
  • Stop
  • Yourself

• Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the interviewer is also a white male.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Job
  • Choice
  • Test

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Kind
  • Alien
  • Test

• If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Rest

• If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Kitchen

• Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • World
  • Health
  • Risk

• Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Growing Up
  • Public
  • Test

• None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.

  

  Alan Gratz
  • Math
  • Test
  • Studying

• So here’s a really stupid thing about the world: The trick to looking cool is not caring whether you look cool. So the moment you achieve perfect coolness is simultaneously the moment that you actually, completely don’t care. I didn’t care about the gravitas of that TV show, and the freedom and security and confidence that came with that was a rush. It took me a while to realize that the feeling I was feeling was power.

  

  Hank Green
  • Freedom
  • Moment
  • Security

• But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Die
  • Hand

• Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Test
  • TV Show
  • Anytime