James Cook Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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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 write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.
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The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
