Samuel Richardson Quotes
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
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No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.
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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
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Anytime I'm locked out of somewhere with another person, I can usually pick the lock successfully. And then I feel like James Bond.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
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I've always been interested in the paranormal, but 'Gray Matter' is a more subtle, mature expression of that - looking at the powers of the brain and more delicate evidence of the extraordinary.
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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
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I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
