Sam Kean
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CRAIG GROESCHEL To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN JEFFREY FRY There was a lot of risk taken in the Mercury and Apollo eras, and we don't take those risks anym... GWYNNE SHOTWELL I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a gr... ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO SAM KEAN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury. JOHN DEACON ODETTE ANNABLE GEORGE CATLIN J. D. SOUTHER CRAIG GROESCHEL SAM KEAN WILLIE MAYS In the stream, (gold) is six times heavier than anything else in there. Even those tiny tiny specks ... BENJAMIN MILLER I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought i... DAVID PROWSE I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas... DAVE FINKEL The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's... HUGH GRANT Just because you got mercury in the water doesn't mean you got mercury in fish. And if we find highe... DOUG MCBRIDE FRANCISCO COSTA C. JOYBELL C. GINA GREENLEE TOM STOPPARD STEVE CARELL There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also... EVAN PETERS MARCEL DUCHAMP DEYTH BANGER KAREN ARMSTRONG PATRICK ROTHFUSS I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t... DIANE WAKOSKI I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one. KIP PARDUE Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for Fra... DAVID LLOYD ZUBIN MEHTA JEANETTE CORON GINA GREENLEE MIKE NICHOLS It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN SAM KEAN DEYTH BANGER Our monitoring found dangerous and excessive mercury concentrations in the air near most of the chlo... LINDA E. GREER HILARIE BURTON Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, no... EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI KHALED HOSSEINI JIMMY CARTER There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but ther... AMANDA ELIASCH ZADIE SMITH AMY BLOOM In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The... CHRIS FROOME ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the ... ANDRE GEIM LAPO ELKANN CHRIS CRUTCHER Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness... RALPH BELLAMY The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something ... WHITTAKER CHAMBERS OLIVIA COLMAN There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We d... CLINT WALKER One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and th... DAVE MORRIS AJA NAOMI KING But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and... COLIN FARRELL TODD GITLIN AL PACINO I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it g... ADAM FERRARA ELVIS COSTELLO BLACK ELK Nothing can escape death. HINA YU DAPHNE DU MAURIER AUDREY HEPBURN DR. DRE EDMUND PHELPS I don't totally buy or believe the paradigm that's constantly presented to us and the financ... MATT BELLAMY TONY ABBOTT TOM FORD When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can&... DANIEL ALARCON Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life dr... FLOYD SKLOOT KRISTIN CAVALLARI When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I ... PAUL SORVINO When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I t... ALBERTO MORAVIA I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Even with the approach that I take in Congress, which is to bring people together to get things done... CHRIS GIBSON I don't want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I'm very aware that there's ... CHARLIE ERGEN IMAN RUPAUL I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for f... THOM YORKE I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ... KEVIN P. RYAN CHRISTINA ENGELA You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was ... WARREN LITTLEFIELD I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the A... TAYLOR NEGRON NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically... MADISON SMARTT BELL CHARLIE SHEEN CRAIG GROESCHEL If I couldn't compete, I wouldn't ride. I don't ride for fun; I ride to prepare for the ... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG FRANCES BEINECKE DAN BURTON JIMMY BRESLIN It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most of i... HENNING MANKELL NORMAN MAILER I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting mo... BEN GIBBARD
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THOMAS KEAN Hurricane Katrina pointed out continuing serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. A... THOMAS KEAN They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may ... THOMAS KEAN The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and ... THOMAS KEAN There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership... THOMAS KEAN Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to ... THOMAS KEAN We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service ... THOMAS KEAN It scares me a bit that we dismantled the CIA to the point that it now takes five years to rebuild i... THOMAS KEAN All 10 of us have decided to do everything we can, whether it's testimony or lobbying or speaking or... THOMAS KEAN It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened. THOMAS KEAN I think this deal is going to be killed. The question is how much damage is this going to do to us b... THOMAS KEAN There's definitely evidence of strange phenomenon in the world. These are well documented, LESLIE KEAN We can't come up with a reason why this information is being withheld. The government won't even ack... LESLIE KEAN We also had a competition between the males and the females for ice cream at lunch. Many of the kids... JUSTIN KEAN What we'll be doing is helping our management [team] manage better by taking the divisions that have... KEAN REGISTER As an interim city manager, you kind of hold the line until a new city manager is hired. The council... KEAN REGISTER 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 Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take th... THOMAS H. KEAN I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. We are safer, but we are not yet safe. That's simply not acceptable. THOMAS H. KEAN We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know th... THOMAS KEAN, JR. In a cool solitude of treesWILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR SAM WALTON SAM YAGAN SAM HOUSTON SAM KEEN SAM KEEN SAM LEVENSON SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN SAM RAYBURN 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. 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