James Dean Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I have a great team at WME.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.
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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.
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Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
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Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
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Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration is that the prison system is broken. My first-hand experiences have taught me that reform needs to happen sooner than later. I'm most interested in mentoring children with parents in prison. When a parent is sentenced to a jail term, the child is sentenced to the same time to be spent without a mother or father. No child should suffer a stigma or lack support and guidance because of the sins of a parent.
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I prefer a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
