Sam Trammell Quotes
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I really like performing for people.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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I definitely like to eat.
