Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Samuel L. Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
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  • Birth: December 21, 1948

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I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to see me as a glam doll in my movies. My audience and the media love me with two different perceptions. It's a strange, crazy situation.

Sonam Kapoor

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When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

Michele Bachmann

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I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

Bob Uecker

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Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

Bruce Weber

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I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Annie Leibovitz

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It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Audrey Tautou

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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

Peter McWilliams

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I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

Peyton Manning

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When you're just in there with the same guys on a regular basis, I think there's a chance to become a little - I don't want to say lazy, but I'll say complacent. So to get a chance to go in there and mix it up with these other guys is exciting.

Shawn Michaels

ChanceThinkYouLazyWantBecome

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Thomas Sowell

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This is a bad day for Boston, but I think if we pull together we'll get through it.

Thomas Menino

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I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

Ryan McGinley

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