James H. Boren Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.
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I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
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It's kind of amazing; I don't know anything. It's an interesting way to work where you're living in the moment and making decisions for your character in the moment. You have to go with your gut on everything - try not to over-think things. That tends to make me doubt what I did, but then that's always the case. I'm a worrier. I have to accept that and just be a worrier.
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When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
