James Jannard Quotes
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
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In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're very alike: pigheaded, stubborn, passionate. It's a wonderful story of how you can't get away from how similar you and your children are.
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I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.
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There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.
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Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.
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I'm terrifically absentminded.
