Sam Heughan Quotes
I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit.
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The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
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A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
