James Broughton Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
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At 21 years old, I found myself in Vancouver, and that's where I got the part for my first movie. I was sitting in a restaurant, and the director came up to me and asked me to read for his film. I really took it with a grain of salt. It was the creepiest casting situation, probably. It turned out that it wasn't.
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It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.
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Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.
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I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!
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My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
