Sam Waterston Quotes
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Quotes to Explore
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
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This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
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It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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When you rebound the ball we're able to move the ball, and we want to get out and run, try to get guys some easy baskets. We don't want to come out and play a half-court game all the time.
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
