James Boswell Quotes
For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
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My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.
