Sam Rockwell Quotes
I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.
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I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
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When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.
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It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.
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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
