William Sadler Quotes
I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause?
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He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
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I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
