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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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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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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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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I'm one of those guys that never get embarrassed.
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I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.
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I stay far away from political humor.
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I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
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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.
