Sam Rivers Quotes
I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
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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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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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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.
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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
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A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
