James Avery Quotes
When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
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I'll remind you that the West signed a deal with North Korea, said it would make the world a safer place, and, of course, all the words evaporated, and North Korea acquired nuclear weapons.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Everyone who's in America spends the first few years not experiencing it. The person is frightened by the newness of the place and doesn't see things. Her emotional universe becomes the entire universe. And then when she thinks of home, her distance in space can seem like a distance in time.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.
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I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.
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When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.
