James Spader Quotes
It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.
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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
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I'm finally dating. It's fun.
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There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.
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It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.
