Jim Samuels Quotes
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I think I need security.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
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Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
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My hope in writing this book has been that enough people will choose to profit from that opportunity to make a difference.
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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Every kid wants to give their family a better life.
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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
