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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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.
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Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
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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.
