James McGreevey Quotes
I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
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People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.
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Obviously, everyone needs to find a system and playing style that suits you more.
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I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
