James Lafferty Quotes
I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
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What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.
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The Democratic Party is always going to be a diverse group of people who are yelling at each other and fighting over what's the best way to do something.
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Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
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He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.
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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
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I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.