James Denton Quotes
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.
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But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.
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Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.
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I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
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I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.
