James Roday Quotes
I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.
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As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.
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Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
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If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.
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It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
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I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.
