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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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.
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We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.
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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.
