James Spader Quotes
I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Yeah, I feel good. Good about my game and my life.
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When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.
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I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.