James Jannard Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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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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Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.'
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
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I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
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I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
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I'm terrifically absentminded.
