Samuel Butler Quotes
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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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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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
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Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
