Sam Mendes Quotes
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
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I haven't gotten a lot of feedback about, 'Oh, you helped me in this way.' But on social media, people are like, 'Thank you for your positive posts,' or 'It's fun to see you grow and your character. I feel like I'm growing with you.'
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
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Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I'm oblivious in a way.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
