Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (Seal) Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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I think I need security.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I owe everything to France.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.
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I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.
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I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.
