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Sam Rockwell Quotes

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1968

Topics

Daughter Remember Taxi Little Driver

Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

Life Step Forward Back Sometimes

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

Voice Doing You Everyone Little Got

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

Family Money Budget Die Debt Size

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

Fearless Nobody Punk Out Outsider

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

India Never Nation Should Capitalist

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

Great Writing Gift Journalism Well

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.

Stephen Merchant

Darkness Soul Blue Brave Wish Dark

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

Love Yourself Space Climb Story You

I do think observing is important in learning.

Learning Think Important Observing

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

Roger Ross Williams

Destiny Prison End Odds Up Would

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

Love Hands Person Mail Anything

I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.

Think Artist Bad Kind Crime Star

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