Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I've always wondered where explanations end and excuses begin.
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I'm a blue-shirt guy.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.
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We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
