James Payn Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
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The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
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I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
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With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
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And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.
