Charles James Quotes
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.” “Just most things.
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Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
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When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.
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In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.
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All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
