James Spader Quotes
I'm paid well and am demanding of the people I work with, and therefore, I feel I should bring a lot.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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No man may make another free.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
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As the animus is partial to argument, he can best be seen at work in disputes where both parties know they are right. Men can argue in a very womanish way, too, when they are anima - possessed and have thus been transformed into the animus of their own anima.
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While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.
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I'm paid well and am demanding of the people I work with, and therefore, I feel I should bring a lot.
