James Lafferty Quotes
Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
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When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
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Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
