James Denton Quotes
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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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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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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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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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
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Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.
