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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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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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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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.
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Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
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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.'
