Samantha Barks Quotes
If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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People listen to The Beatles, but while they were muscially influential, they weren't culturally influential in quite the same way. You can go into the back of beyond in a little Indian village, and they will listen to Bob Marley. But they're not going to be listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.
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Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
