James Broughton Quotes
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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I don't want to be known as the Aerosmith chick, but it's fun to put on the boots and makeup and act like a tough girl.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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...it’s important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it’s a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
