James Stewart Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.
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Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
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But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
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We're able to play different genres and be very specific in sounding like we know what we're doing.
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I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.
