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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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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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
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I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
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It came to a point where there was that curiosity factor: Was he going to hit 80? I'm sure it went through his head.
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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.
