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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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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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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This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
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I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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The world is turning,I hope it don't turn away.
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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
