Sam Graves Quotes
Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
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Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
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When I was younger, I was relying on those young-girl genetics. I wasn't watching what I was eating or looking at nutrition. Now I'm paying attention, and my body is leaner. I'm healthier. I'm eating better. I'm just in better shape.
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At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'
