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 hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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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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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I write something and it's not amazing, I don't care because even if I feel like it might not be amazing, it could still be a number-one hit.
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I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
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New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
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Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
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You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.
