James Hillman Quotes
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.
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The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.
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To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.
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Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.
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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
