James Agate Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
