Sam Heughan Quotes

I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

Sam Heughan

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

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• A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

  

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• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  

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• Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

  

  Kat Graham
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• What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

  

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• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

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• I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

  

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• Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

  

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• Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Thinking
  • Myself
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• One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Free
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• Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
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• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
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• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
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  • World
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• The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

  

  Fetty Wap
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• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

  

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• I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.

  

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• I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

  

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• That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

  

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• A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

  

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• That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

  

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• Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

  

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  • Ride

• I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Child