J. K. Simmons Quotes
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
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I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.
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I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.
