Samantha Barks
Related RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON RICHARD M. NIXON KARAN JOHAR We knew coming in that he has a lot of talent. He does things like that. He eludes pressure and he g... AJ HAWK He doesn't have to work anymore. But he can't help himself. He does it because he loves doing it. DAVID RUSSICK His leadership doesn't come only from what he says, but what he does. He built himself up to become ... FRANK THOMSEN They want to have a big movie star in that role. I'm sure a lot of other people were considered. He ... BRUCE VILANCH PARK CHAN-WOOK He is 100 percent ahead of where he was last year. He just doesn't get tired. He does a lot of thing... BOB STOLL HELEN FISHER LEN WEIN He still does. He carries that thing around in the house and practices a lot. AILEEN BARRY I don't know that he always liked himself, deep down . . . but then other days he'd feel like he was... LAURA NYGREN PLATO LAO TZU CHIEF SEATTLE Alan Greenspan tends to give a tougher talk in a speech when he is not going to raise rates than he ... WAYNE ANGELL CHIEF SEATTLE I guess we could always tell that Kevin would go this way just because of the way he always got invo... BRIDGET IDTENSOHN Is he a leading citizen? Yes, he is. Does he have a lot of friends because of that? Yes, he does. (B... BOB HONTS BRENTON THWAITES It just does not fit into what else he has done. He has presented himself as a good-government perso... DICK DADEY He does have that evidence, ... If it established complicity or pattern, he will be in a position to... PAUL CAVALLUZZO We had him on the hook in the first inning, and then he got that lead and then he started mixing his... DUSTY BAKER Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictu... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE He's in a mode where he enjoys being a leader. I think out there he enjoyed it, but here he just see... TIM DWIGHT HUGH JACKMAN Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He... DAVID LAUREN Let's face it, there was a lot of criticism when he started in New York. I've been saying, if that w... DON COOPER He doesn't get a lot of recognition, but in the locker room he does. Teammates know how important a ... PETR SYKORA POPE BENEDICT XVI DAVID SARNOFF It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's ... JULIE GONZALO MARGARET ATWOOD DAN MILLMAN Chad Johnson is a lot of fun. He does what he does to get the fans in the game and I think that's fu... ICKEY WOODS I have fallen in love with the True Lord. He does not die, He does not come and go. In separation, H... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been... BARRY HUMPHRIES When he does say something to you, you've got to take it to heart. It's not very often that he comes... CHAD GREENWAY DENIS VILLENEUVE God is present by Love alone. By Love alone He is great and glorious. By Love alone He liveth and fe... THOMAS TRAHERNE I have a lot of faith in Will. I know he's doing to do the extra to prepare himself to play both pos... BRYAN STINESPRING Now: unlike ourselves, the Father of Jesus loves men and women, not for what He finds in them, but f... JAMES BURTSCHAELL CHIEF SEATTLE I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet d... LESLEY ANN WARREN Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ... SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota... FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE I like to find old thingsLI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more... FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ... FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa... HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re... HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin... HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act. HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods. HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ... HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today. HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties. HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university. HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have... HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w... HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined. HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required. HE CHANGCHUI He does a little bit of everything, sometimes he does it wrong, but he does a little bit of everythi... JODY JENERETTE TURKISH PROVERB JAKE LLOYD ERIN MCCARTHY VICTORIA JUSTICE He doesn't say anything, but he does a lot. CATHIE MILLER DAVID STARR JORDAN That's amazing, not to take BP on the days you pitch, and then to go out there and swing the bat lik... BILL ROBINSON Maybe he does want to rehabilitate himself, but he does not speak, so we do not know. CLAUDE MOISE If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?'NOAH GORDON FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY VIN SCULLY ROBERT BROWNING FAY WRAY A. W. TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... AIDEN WILSON TOZER A.W. TOZER I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from cr... CHUCK BARRIS There is an immense, childlike enthusiasm about the man. It's inspiring when you work with a 77-year... SAM MENDES Everyone loves himself, but loving others is the most daunting task. The main reason for any person ... ANUJ SOMANY He's still growing as a player. A big key is that he's a very gifted athlete, and I think the limits... JACK SANDLER At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop song... NEIL TENNANT J.K. ROWLING WILLIAM BLAKE WILLIAM BLAKE SUNDAY ADELAJA I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've... MEAT LOAF OSHO I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work. DAVID EINHORN He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of p... TANYA TUCKER SPARKY ANDERSON ADRIANNE PALICKI SIGMUND FREUD MOTHER TERESA When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, ... VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) VOLTAIRE
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl. SAMANTHA BARKS I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned... SAMANTHA BARKS I never have celebrity crushes. SAMANTHA BARKS I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end. SAMANTHA BARKS When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own'... SAMANTHA BARKS I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at ka... SAMANTHA BARKS There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant react... SAMANTHA BARKS I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love si... SAMANTHA BARKS I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' ... CARL BARKS I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover... CARL BARKS I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writin... CARL BARKS There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. CARL BARKS I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. ... CARL BARKS I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. ... CARL BARKS I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in tha... CARL BARKS The thing that I consider most important about my work is this: I told it like it is. I told my read... CARL BARKS I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had so... CARL BARKS Before I started drawing a comic, I would read my script for it ten or twenty times. CARL BARKS Ideas generally come in a very complicated form, and you've got to strip them down to make them usab... CARL BARKS I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. ... CARL BARKS I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. ... CARL BARKS Nick had a tremendous 200 and 400. He won them both with some real decent times. JIM BARKS I think Lindsay Wickman is kind of hidden in our track team and she works really, really hard. She h... JIM BARKS If he turned his back on conservatives on illegal immigration and gay marriage, I think he would abs... INGA BARKS WHAT WAS TOLD, THATCOLEMAN BARKS A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one insi... COLEMAN BARKS Fold within fold, the belovedCOLEMAN BARKS Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,COLEMAN BARKS In Paris people love and regret, kiss and be happy. SAMANTHA How does somebody know you love them if you keep it to yourself. SAMANTHA Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We s... SAMANTHA ISLER All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub. SAMANTHA MUMBA Well, I asked him who would start the war first. SAMANTHA SMITH And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again. SAMANTHA SMITH If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war. SAMANTHA SMITH He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it. SAMANTHA SMITH Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth. SAMANTHA SMITH Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good. SAMANTHA SMITH God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight. SAMANTHA SMITH London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a s... SAMANTHA SHANNON My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allow... SAMANTHA SHANNON I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a ... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obses... SAMANTHA SHANNON I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves. SAMANTHA SHANNON I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card readi... SAMANTHA SHANNON Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the ol... SAMANTHA SHANNON I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but i... SAMANTHA SHANNON I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature... SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller. SAMANTHA SHANNON I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sur... SAMANTHA SHANNON I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interac... SAMANTHA SHANNON Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you... SAMANTHA SHANNON I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to ... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto... SAMANTHA SHANNON I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creat... SAMANTHA SHANNON People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' be... SAMANTHA SHANNON I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti... SAMANTHA SHANNON I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ... SAMANTHA SHANNON It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight we... SAMANTHA SHANNON What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. SAMANTHA SHANNON 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, an... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune ... SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being someth... SAMANTHA SHANNON I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel... SAMANTHA SHANNON SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA POWER I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hear... SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great... SAMANTHA MUMBA But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much. SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason. SAMANTHA MUMBA All I say is that I don't go out with famous men. SAMANTHA MUMBA I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies. SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm not into the whole showbiz scene. SAMANTHA MUMBA People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay. SAMANTHA MUMBA When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shie... SAMANTHA MUMBA There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blon... SAMANTHA MUMBA But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores. SAMANTHA MUMBA I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing... 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But I c... SAMANTHA ISLER I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen. SAMANTHA ISLER I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ... SAMANTHA HARVEY When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and... SAMANTHA HARVEY As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more ... SAMANTHA HARVEY Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once ru... SAMANTHA HARVEY Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and ... SAMANTHA HARVEY With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any em... SAMANTHA HARVEY It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subj... SAMANTHA HARVEY The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fas... SAMANTHA HARVEY The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and... SAMANTHA HARVEY With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. SAMANTHA HARVEY I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's lif... SAMANTHA HARVEY Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate i... SAMANTHA HARVEY Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own int... SAMANTHA HARVEY The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as... SAMANTHA HARVEY I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complet... SAMANTHA HARVEY When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash... SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until t... SAMANTHA HARVEY We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i... SAMANTHA HARVEY We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind... SAMANTHA HARVEY There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just m... SAMANTHA HARVEY One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man s... SAMANTHA HARVEY I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we... SAMANTHA HARVEY What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching... SAMANTHA HARVEY My sister is my sister regardless - has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. T... SAMANTHA HARVEY Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would ha... SAMANTHA HARVEY SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX SAMANTHA FOX My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedd... SAMANTHA BOND One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man w... SAMANTHA BOND Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers. SAMANTHA BOND I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely s... SAMANTHA BOND If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down. SAMANTHA BOND Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called ... SAMANTHA BOND The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are ab... SAMANTHA BOND The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved ... SAMANTHA BOND I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work. SAMANTHA BOND I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong. SAMANTHA BOND I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason... SAMANTHA BOND It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing a... SAMANTHA BOND I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this ... SAMANTHA BOND When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first ... SAMANTHA BOND I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative th... SAMANTHA BOND Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing aro... SAMANTHA BOND I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on... SAMANTHA BOND It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals. SAMANTHA BOND I always have bananas with me for energy. SAMANTHA BOND I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can. SAMANTHA BOND 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next seri... SAMANTHA BOND Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent. SAMANTHA BOND I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been v... SAMANTHA BOND If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50.... SAMANTHA BOND Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I... SAMANTHA BOND My best friend is my husband. SAMANTHA BOND I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. SAMANTHA BEE It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life. SAMANTHA BEE I learn something in the interviews from time to time. SAMANTHA BEE
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop... 
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop... 
I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Whi... 
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score wo... 
In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become o... 
When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, ... 
The measure of a man is what he does with power. 
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does no... 
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he do... 
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does... 
Hugh Jackman really inspired me as a kid. He's a cool Aussie guy who works very hard, and he'... 
He moves beautifully, he sings beautifully, and he's a good actor. But that's very rare, I think. An... 
God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and... 
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. 
He thought of it as a contest, like the children at school who would twist your arm and say Give in?... 
A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does 
I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as ... 
He who does evil to others, does it to himself. 
[Maybe he is a droid. Could anyone so young be so savvy? Does he talk this way all the time?] I'm li... 
How does he get that caveman shit to work for him? I would get my balls ripped off and stuffed in my... 
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off o... 
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! 
Then this God does exist according to you?"
A man really determines himself by what he does. 
Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture 
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me ... 
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... 
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... 
The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, h... 
He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies ... 
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Li... 
If a man does not love his work, he will definitely lose it 
He accepts life in all its facets, in all its climates and colors. He alone does not choose he accep... 
The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to r... 
Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on ... 
Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even... 
I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything a... 
When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself... 
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a... 
I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now... 
Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that... 
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But w... 
I was physically abused and I retaliated. 
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. 
I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do. 
I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts ... 
When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person. 