Samantha Mathis Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.
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Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
