James Badge Dale Quotes
I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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I can't go anywhere without being recognized. I'm.
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When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.
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Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of Twilight, and then it happened again on New Moon. Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.
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I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.
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I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
