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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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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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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Europe is a much more complex historical, cultural, and geographical concept than is envisaged in the reduced approach by the European Union.
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I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!
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People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.
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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.
