James Cromwell Quotes
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.
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During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.
