Samuel Barnett Quotes
This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Funny is an attitude.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I'm concerned that this will affect the quality.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
