Samantha Barks Quotes
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
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I couldn't kill a fly.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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But this character is very different from me. Her world is very distant from mine. Her relationship with her daughter is obviously something that's very distant to me as well.
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I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.
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We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
