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Sam Waterston Quotes

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 15, 1940

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Effort Problem Worth No Problem Too

I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.

Women Men People Think Important

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

Seeing Stone Rocks Started Different

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.

Me Director Out Things Like Means

I don't entirely reject the idea of efficient markets. It needs updating.

Idea Needs Markets Efficient Reject

When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers so that I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly, sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.

Good I Am Me Good Things Reading

My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

Father Time Mission Now British He

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

Masahiro Tanaka

Looking Golf Play Awe Watch Just

My parents, stupidly, always let me go downtown. This was pre-pager, even. It made me adventurous. I think it makes you tough.

Parents Me Tough Think You Go

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Myself Aging Parents Think Friends

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

Business Person Lead By Example Kind

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

Goal Surprising Make Express Viewer

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

Health Balance House Sharks Cards

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