Sam Rockwell Quotes

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

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• The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • World
  • Me
  • Blue

• There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Lovely

• Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • You
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• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Career
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  • Yourself

• I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.

  

  Olesya Rulin
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• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Child
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• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Hair
  • Gay
  • Unique

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
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• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
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• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• I think they felt intimidated at some point in this playoff. ...Our big guys have been effective. ... They just wanted to make a stand and make a statement.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Guys
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• I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.

  

  Q-Tip
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• To be honest, my partner Natasha is my inspiration. She is who I reference when searching for my role. I don't emulate what she does, but her interpretation of Giselle is so fragile and sensitive and so tender. It constantly inspires me. And I feel like it's the other way around. We have a great rapport together.

  

  David Hallberg
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• Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

  

  Walter de La Mare
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• It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

  

  Sam Rockwell
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