Samuel Larsen Quotes
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
