Sam Claflin Quotes
I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
