Sam Walter Foss Quotes
He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
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I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
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I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
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Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.
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I'm running because we need change.
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Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I went on Ellen once, and even then, I was just a bad performer. It was nerve-racking at first playing in front of all her fans who really wanted to see her. Her fans are so young and accepting to new people, and it helped that they knew 'Marvin Gaye,' too.
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I love the opportunity to affect change in people's lives.
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I forayed into films in 1974, and I was done with college in 1975.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.
