Samuel Morse Quotes
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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I hate birthdays.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.
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Science and art are not opposed.
