James Avery Quotes
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
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Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
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We can set it as a goal that taxes on labor would be even lower in Hungary... that we will have the cheapest energy in Europe, and that all those who want to work would have a job.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
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If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.
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I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
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I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.
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I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.
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You are weak people, only a country that isn’t normal acts this way. No apartheid law will erase the fact that in this homeland there are two nations.
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Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.
