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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It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
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I'm terrifically absentminded.
