James Allen Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.
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The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.
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I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
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The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced.
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
