J. K. Simmons Quotes
By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.
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Launching and seeding awareness of a new tagline is a major financial undertaking. You'd have to be very sure that you needed to do that.
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You create value, and you create jobs.
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It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
