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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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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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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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.
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I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.
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It's a joke how tough it is to win a Slam.
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At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.
