Sam Robards Quotes
My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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You create your own reality.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
