Samuel Witwer (Samuel Stewart Witwer) Quotes
Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.
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The librarians know the secrets, not the historians
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We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.
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One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
