Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
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Age for me is just a number.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
