Sam Riley Quotes

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Research
  • Intelligence
  • Network

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • You
  • Talk

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Child
  • WIld

• Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Character
  • Green

• Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Movies

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Exercise

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Want
  • Me
  • Question

• I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Rest

• Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Responsibility
  • Survive

• The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something God exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Reason
  • Prove
  • God Exists

• It is easy to get sucked in. Because you’re watching these guys banging it consistently out of the park. And... you want a bit of that. It’s… I wouldn’t say ‘ego’, but you want to add to this score. I don’t want to be a restrictor. I don’t want to put a ceiling on what we’re capable of doing.

  

  Joe Root
  • Guys
  • Capable
  • Score

• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

  

  Chris Ofili
  • Work
  • Music
  • Trying

• Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Better