Sam Riley Quotes
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
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There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.
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Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
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Paul Volcker is a tremendous hero with the Federal Reserve system and for the American economy. He took very tough actions and helped to break the back of double-digit inflation at a time when it had to be done.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
