James Spader Quotes
When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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The phenomenon of 'Transformers' itself is mind-shaking, you know?
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
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Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody, I have some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.
