James Frecheville Quotes
I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.
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I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
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I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.
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To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.
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The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love.
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I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.
