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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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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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.
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I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
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Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.
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Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.
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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.