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“If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.”
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“Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.”
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“I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.”
Source : "Shooting: Samuel Jackson says fewer guns aren't necessarily the answer" by Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. December 16, 2012.
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“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”
Source : John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing
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“In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“President Obama is coming under criticism now for not meeting with his jobs council. He hasn't met with his jobs council in over six months. You know the reason Obama hasn't met with his job council in six months? They're all out looking for jobs.”
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“But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.”
Source : Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.