Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.
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If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.
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Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
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It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.
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I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
