James Corden Quotes
On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm painfully middle class.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.
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Personally, I prefer working in the background.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.
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On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.
