James Badge Dale Quotes
I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
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I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
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Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
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My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize.
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I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.
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I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.
