James Denton Quotes
Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I'm an emotional guy.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we've been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best.
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It's challenging to drive in a way that's human-like.
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Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
