James Avery Quotes
I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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I love Chanel.
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I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.
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I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.
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I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.
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I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.
