James Boswell Quotes
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.
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I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
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The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
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With every prayer and every thought of love, we release the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our lights are part of God.
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The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
