Benedict Samuel Quotes
You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I still don't know much about directing a movie.
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It means nothing if the movie doesn't get out there.
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Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.
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You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.
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You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.
