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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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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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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I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.
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Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it
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I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.
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The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
