Samantha Morton Quotes
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
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I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
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The tabloids so easily throw people under the bus for a one-day sensation on the newsstand but sadly don't care about the long-term damage it does to those involved.
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The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
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Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
