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Sam Houston Quotes

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

Sam Houston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1793 - July 26, 1863

Topics

Father Time School Doubt Accomplish

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

John Boorman

Good You Acting Position Defensive

This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jewelry Dream Go Ring Personal Try

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

John Lithgow

Work Best People College Ambition

I eat really clean and really simple: brown rice, a quinoa bowl, grilled fish, veggies, a big salad.

Amber Valletta

Simple Fish Salad Clean Eat Rice

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Tommy Douglas

Freedom People Way Protect Spy

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

Diego Luna

You Acting Feelings Therapy Contact

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.

Chris Hardwick

Year Long You Television Movies Air

When all else fails there's always delusion.

Conan O'Brien

Always Delusion When All Else Fails

I've been in 'Avengers' films, but I don't do a lot of the action parts. There are superheroes in the movie! People would much rather see them fight each other!

Cobie Smulders

Fight People Action See Been Would

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Colin Angle

Robots Hollywood Mechanical Imagine

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

Bryan White

Music Great End Country Kind Never

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

Antoine Fuqua

Community Day Police Think Better