Samantha Morton Quotes
You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I have a great office.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.
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It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
