Sam Abell Quotes
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Good design should be honest.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
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The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
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It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
