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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...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
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I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.
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I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
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When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
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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.
