Samuel West Quotes

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Samuel West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 19, 1966

Topics

FeelYouPlayDoneStageTorch

People inspire me. Every day, I meet amazing individuals in the field. When I see a mother who has walked for three weeks to come to a MSF clinic, with two kids on her back and her belongings on her head, facing intimidation and physical abuse on her way, I am inspired by her resilience - her desire for life.

Joanne Liu

LifeMotherDayI AmPeopleAmazing

Too many Americans are getting sick on our over-commercialized food system.

Andrew Zimmern

FoodSickSystemOurManyGetting

The beginnings of CTE can start quite early.

Ann McKee

GreenBornOutsideRightWisconsin

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

Stephen Mangan

SchoolDidThingSchool PlaysPlays

I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Stanley A. McChrystal

PeopleAmericanGoalDefeatWant

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

Steve-O

GreatMyselfSpiritualSuffering

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

HistoricalMythFactLiteraryPlato

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

Michael Lewis

GoodHomeWifeI AmBookHusband

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

MusicPathWorldSongOverPoet

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

Julia Gillard

MeMindsetGenderMediaHandWay

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside.

Josh Duhamel

LoveExperienceSpaceOutdoorsWant

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

Joseph Bruchac

ChildrenDayThinkAmericanMy Own

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