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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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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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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In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death, people would talk. They would say 'things' about him and he wouldn't be there to defend himself.
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The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life, is one that I admire enormously.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.
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I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
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Evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God.
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I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
