Sam Waterston Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.
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I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
