James Keller Quotes
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
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Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.