Sam Yagan Quotes
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
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What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.
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When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.
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I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.
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The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
