Sam Rockwell Quotes
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
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People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.
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The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
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Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
