Benedict Samuel Quotes
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
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Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.
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So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'
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God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
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A lot of people say things to us. We're so young and, I guess, cute. We want people to watch our sport and understand it.
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But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.
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The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
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I don't really create things externally; I'm not that kind of actor.
