James Mercer Quotes
There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.
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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.
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There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'
