James M. Barrie Quotes
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I still have a young attitude.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?
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Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
