Samantha Mathis Quotes
You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
