J. K. Simmons Quotes
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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I applied to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and didn't get in the first year, so I worked at Costa and the Dean Gallery Cafe then applied again and got in the next year when I was 18. I was so excited.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
