James Payn Quotes
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
