James William Ercolan (James Darren) Quotes
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.
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Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
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I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.
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Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
