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'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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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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‘It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.’
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
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It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.
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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.
