James Cromwell Quotes
My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
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We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?
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Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
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There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
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My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.
