James Otis Quotes
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
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I love Bill Murray, but I'm not quite Bill Murray. I wish!
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We ask each other about it in the coach's room every day. What do you think is going to happen? Nobody knows anything. All I know is Lou's got a contract for next year, and all the coaches have contracts, too.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
