Sam Waterston Quotes
I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.
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'How does one conquer fear, Don B.?' 'One takes a frog and sews it to one’s shoe,' he said. 'The left or the right?' Don B. gave me a pitying look. 'Well, you’d look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn’t you?' he said. 'One frog on each shoe.'
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
