James Sinegal Quotes
If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
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Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
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If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.