James Cromwell Quotes
When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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I tried to represent the collapse of the Japanese family system through showing children growing up.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.
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All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
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When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
