Sam Riley Quotes
I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I was a really big kid.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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I'm not a big traveller.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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I'm a big Peyton Manning fan.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
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I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.
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There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
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I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
