James Carville Quotes
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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I think that when you're an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you're going to be. I hope that I'm a good role model for young girls. I'm not going to, if people still want me in their movies, I don't want to be one of these girls who goes around partying every night and is in rehab. I don't want to do that.
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I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
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The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
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Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to. So despite 'Poltergeist' being a horror movie, I convinced my parents to let me see it. It was terrifying. I guess this says a lot about me as a six-year-old, because I loved it.
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Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
