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.

  

  Barry Humphries
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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.

  

  Sam Houston
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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.

  

  Rafael Correa
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• Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
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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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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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.

  

  Randa Haines
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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
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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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.

  

  Ted Danson
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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.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
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• Everything's so accelerated now.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

  

  Wayne Newton
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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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• There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

  

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• People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

  

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• I'm not a Baptist in any formal way. I go to the Baptist church, where my wife plays the piano, on days of bad weather. On days of good weather, I ramble off into the woods somewhere. I am a person who takes the Gospel seriously, but I have had trouble conforming my thoughts to a denomination.

  

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• Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.

  

  Paolo Nutini
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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.

  

  Sam Trammell
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