Sam Huntington Quotes
I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.
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Part of why I think I have so much fun working in the mockumentary genre is that you can cut to pretty much anything at any time. People are now so conditioned to watch documentaries - they know how they operate, and that you can introduce a new character by cutting to them, and now they're in it. Similarly, being able to treat a sidebar idea that has nothing to do with your main story really seriously, the way the rest of it is being treated - all the pomp and circumstances lend themselves, I feel, to making comedy feel really earned and funnier and weirder.
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I love being a part of the country-music community.
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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
