James Spader Quotes
If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.
Quotes to Explore
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.
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I like the acting. It's how I started, and I sort of feel that if I don't give it a little shot now, and I go back, then I'm pretty much done with it. I mean, at what age am I going to do it at? Although, when you see Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow doing it, I guess the answer is 80.
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Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.
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I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.
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When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.
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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
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If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.
