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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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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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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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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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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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
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They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. ...All that I've done is to say what's on other peoples' mind.
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The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.
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All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
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I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
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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.
