"I never have celebrity crushes."

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Source : "Samantha Barks, Eponine In ‘Les Miserables,’ On Winning One Of Hollywood’s Most Coveted Roles". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

Samantha Barks

“There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.”
“I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.”
“there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.”

Source : Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press
“Forget your troubles and just get happy.”

Source : "Song: 'Get Happy'". 1930.
“One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.”
“There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.”
“It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.”
“It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals”

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