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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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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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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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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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For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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The Tambors were conservative Jews, and we attended Temple Beth Shalom at 14th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco. We were the only Jewish family for miles. To me, being Jewish meant 'otherness.'
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I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
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For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
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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.
