Sam Waterston Quotes
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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My father was very encouraging.
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BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.'
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Much less is it adviseable for a Person to go thither to America, who has no other Quality to recommend him but his Birth. In Europe it has indeed its Value; but it is a Commodity that cannot be carried to a worse Market than that of America, where people do not inquire concerning a Stranger, What is he? but, What can he do?
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.