James Agate Quotes
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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To me, my business is my life.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?
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I think it's harder to write about joy than pain, isn't it?
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
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A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.
