James Mercer Quotes
There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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When you call me that, smile!
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I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire. Of course it is very fine of me to be renouncing so much wealth and power for the sake of my wonderful dear Niafer: but she is worth the sacrifice, and, besides, she is witnessing all this magnanimity, and cannot well fail to be impressed.
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I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
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There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.
