James Cook Quotes
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I have selective hearing.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.
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I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.
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As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.
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My English is actually getting worse. We talk Spanish at home and switch to English only when we need it. Like when we go to the bank to get some money.
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Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.
