James Frey Quotes
I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
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A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
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The midwife bustled out to the four in the antechamber and announced that the Almighty (who had recently become a Protestant) had seen fit to bless milady with a son.
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I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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I was weak and pathetic and I couldn't control myself. An explanation, especially a bullshit one, doesn't alter the circumstances. I need to change, I have to change, and at this point, change is my only option, unless I am ready to die. All that matters is that I make myself something else and someone else for the future.
