James Callis Quotes
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.
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Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.
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I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
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You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.
