Sam Rockwell Quotes
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
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When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.
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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.
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Well, you know, it's fun to sign autographs still for me. I don't sign that many.
