Samuel L. Jackson Quotes
I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Nobody is going to believe what you're saying if you don't believe it yourself.
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I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
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I'm human, just like anybody else.
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Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.
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What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
