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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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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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I think there's an innocence to me.
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The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to events. That's the part that has always terrified me. You can see dozens of photos where I have zero hair and makeup and I'm wearing my own jeans and T-shirt, because I was not that interested in that side of it.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.
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Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman,' 'The Simpsons,' 'Newhart,' and 'Coach,' and sometimes I'd feel like I didn't belong.
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I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
