Samantha Bond Quotes
I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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I write in a small office at home.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.
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The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
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To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
