J. K. Simmons Quotes
People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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You are sufficiently like me to officially be interesting.
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My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
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I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.
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I meet people, I like to ask: which sign are you?
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As I rebuild my life, I remind myself not to relive the past.
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'
