James Cook Quotes
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.
