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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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.
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Coming off the bench or starting doesn't matter to me one bit. I just want to win.
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.
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Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
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I'm terrifically absentminded.
