Sam Trammell quote: "I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts."

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have ...
SAM TRAMMELL

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!
SAM TRAMMELL

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scie...
SAM TRAMMELL

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I ...
SAM TRAMMELL

I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Su...
SAM TRAMMELL

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
SAM TRAMMELL

I definitely like to eat.
SAM TRAMMELL

I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Van...
SAM TRAMMELL

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
SAM TRAMMELL

In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
SAM TRAMMELL

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
SAM TRAMMELL

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connectio...
SAM TRAMMELL

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now...
SAM TRAMMELL

I'm a vocabulary nerd.
SAM TRAMMELL

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control ...
SAM TRAMMELL

Being a father is just wonderful.
SAM TRAMMELL

When I wake up, I'll go through emails on my iPhone - the junk email. At that point, my brain is...
SAM TRAMMELL

I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because...
SAM TRAMMELL

A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns...
SAM TRAMMELL

When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you ...
SAM TRAMMELL

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Or...
SAM TRAMMELL

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
SAM TRAMMELL

It is easy to second-guess me, but it was my call. I'd like someone to give me a guarantee that Davi...
ALAN TRAMMELL

I just think with the options we have that it's my best option, ... even though he has not pitched w...
ALAN TRAMMELL

In 2003, (Bonderman) was the best guy for the job, to be honest with you. We didn't have guys in the...
ALAN TRAMMELL

I don't think Jeremy was sharp. Velocity-wise he was fine, but location he was not. He didn't have i...
ALAN TRAMMELL

He had a cramp and just couldn't get rid of it. He was in the dugout later in the game, so that was ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

I'm not counting on it. I'd like to say maybe he'd be available to pinch-hit, but as far as playing ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

He started in Double-A and made it to Triple-A, which is a good sign,
ALAN TRAMMELL

This is exactly what the Detroit Tigers need. He's what I call a good ballplayer who does a little b...
ALAN TRAMMELL

He doesn't appear to let things bother him. That was a tough situation.
ALAN TRAMMELL

This guy is so valuable, we want to make sure he's OK. Hopefully it's just one start.
ALAN TRAMMELL

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.
TRAMMELL CROW

Whether I'm there or not, I'll always be a Tiger, and I'll always root for the Tigers.
ALAN TRAMMELL

It's pressure,
ALAN TRAMMELL

He felt it warming up a little bit, but thought it was nothing,
ALAN TRAMMELL

We got a few runs off Colon and that was very pleasing. It feels great to win here.
ALAN TRAMMELL

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This yea...
ALAN TRAMMELL

One guy we'll call up for sure is Marcus Thames .
ALAN TRAMMELL

I think everybody in the ballpark was thinking 'could it happen?' ... but there's no category for al...
ALAN TRAMMELL

Those guys are celebrating and they deserve it.
ALAN TRAMMELL

We've said it before, when Carlos Pena hits a home run -- wow! That might be the furthest ball ever ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

I told him I'd need to take some time to make some decisions, and he was fine with that. I'd like to...
ALAN TRAMMELL

How important is he to the club? My gosh, he's at the top of the list.
ALAN TRAMMELL

If I leave, I leave with my head high, ... I know in my own mind we're making some headway, I believ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

But it was a heck of a performance by our bullpen. Obviously it will be forgotten, but they deserve ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

Thank God you didn't do that to him, ... Your dog, maybe, but not your son. They would have picked o...
ALAN TRAMMELL

There's a lot of work to be done. They don't deny it.
ALAN TRAMMELL

Nothing's been promised, ... It was an opportunity to talk baseball and tell them why I think I'm a ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

Really, I'm OK. I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
ALAN TRAMMELL

I'm sure we'll discuss quite a few things, to be honest with you.
ALAN TRAMMELL

I hope I get to continue with this because there is some unfinished business. I'm going to be in bas...
ALAN TRAMMELL

We broke out today, it's been awhile.
ALAN TRAMMELL

Somewhere after the All-Star break he started dropping down a little more, especially to the right-h...
ALAN TRAMMELL

The first three innings were the key. We had a lot of opportunities, but we didn't score. That came ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

You give them a little avenue, ... and you saw what happened.
ALAN TRAMMELL

I'd say, right now, he's their ace. They have a few aces as far as I'm concerned.
ALAN TRAMMELL

Monday will be a big day. But I'm fine. I'm not worried about it. I'll deal with it.
ALAN TRAMMELL

I don't want a setback,
ALAN TRAMMELL

Inexcusable. It really bothers me.
ALAN TRAMMELL

Back to one run again -- that's not going to cut it. Score one run and there's a low percentage of w...
ALAN TRAMMELL

I think there's a possibility he'll be activated this weekend.
ALAN TRAMMELL

You would like to hold them off as long as possible and to be honest, we did that. Congratulations t...
ALAN TRAMMELL

In the sixth, not being able to block the ball, that was huge. We might still be playing. ... We did...
ALAN TRAMMELL

If those comments stir things up a little bit, that's OK, because we're all accountable,
ALAN TRAMMELL

He's a little taller (in his batting stance), a little more aggressive to the ball. He's not collaps...
ALAN TRAMMELL

[Manager Alan Trammell wouldn't put a timetable on when Guillen might return to the lineup.] There's...
ALAN TRAMMELL

In my opinion, it's a sleeping giant.
ALAN TRAMMELL

Not too shabby. Getting out of that first inning was huge for him, because you could see he was nerv...
ALAN TRAMMELL

Down the stretch, we've been struggling with our pitching staff, but he's taken the ball. He's been ...
ALAN TRAMMELL

This is a big win for the playoff situation,
ALAN TRAMMELL

We're doing our job,
ALAN TRAMMELL

I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, ... but if he continues like this, we'd have to rethink some...
ALAN TRAMMELL

There's no question this guy has a special arm, but he's still a little raw.
ALAN TRAMMELL

We both came in and worked. We were both getting sicker and sicker and sicker by the day.
DENISE TRAMMELL

I'm afraid of not getting support or not being able to see our regular customers. They're important ...
DENISE TRAMMELL

Just the guilt of the unborn babies is enough. Also, I have asthma and if I get sick, it becomes dou...
DENISE TRAMMELL

I decided today when the smoke poured through the serving window and I had to move away from the gri...
DENISE TRAMMELL

Our area central and southern Minnesota has taken the brunt of it.
KAREN TRAMMELL

I give those guys credit over there, ... They have a worse record. They're battling. And that's what...
ALAN TRAMMELL

My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM

You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM

Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON

Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN

I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN

If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI

I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI

I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI

I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI

The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
SAM PECKINPAH

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin...
SAM PALLADIO

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never...
SAM PALLADIO

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ...
SAM PALLADIO

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
SAM PALLADIO

If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'...
SAM PALLADIO

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
SAM NEILL

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
SAM NEILL

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr...
SAM NEILL

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
SAM NEILL

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ...
SAM MENDES

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi...
SAM MENDES

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES

You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES

I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES

I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES

I want to inspire, and be inspired.
SAM MENDES

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
SAM LEVENSON

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON

The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
SAM LEVENSON

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im...
SAM LEVENSON

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON

I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
SAM LEVENSON

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l...
SAM LEVENSON

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON

I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
SAM KINISON

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON

I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON

Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON

I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON

I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

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Sam Trammell

I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

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