Jim Adkins Quotes
We've been writing a little, but the hardest thing about writing on the road is it's difficult to get deep and flush out an idea you always have to go do something.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.
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We've been writing a little, but the hardest thing about writing on the road is it's difficult to get deep and flush out an idea you always have to go do something.
