Sandy Adams Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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You're gifted to do something.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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I've always been a leader. If someone was getting picked on in school, I'd try to deflate that situation by inviting that kid to eat lunch with me. I've always tried to be a uniter.
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I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.
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I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!
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At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.
