Sam Waterston Quotes
I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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God, did they know? A year made the world of difference! This was one more year I could be with Jason, one more year I could live! I signed up for three hundred years. . . not three hundred and one!
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
