Sam Waterston Quotes
Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.
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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.
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I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
