Sam Trammell Quotes
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
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Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.
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Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.
