James Marsden Quotes
Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.
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Nobody's ever going to hire me to choreograph fights.
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Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.
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When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.
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I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talked like, it was always from the wrong place.
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Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.
