James Spader Quotes
I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.
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I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.
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I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.
