James Denton Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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I see myself as a serious artist, but yeah, when people come to my shows, they want to hear 'What Was I Thinkin',' 'Drunk on a Plane,' and lots of up-tempo, fun songs.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.
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Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
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I don't think there was ever a moment when I was like, 'Yeah, I want to be a singer!' I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job.
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I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
