Samantha Morton Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
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I work hard and support myself.
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When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
