James T. Farrell Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.
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When you have used your beauty to get around, it's like having extra cash in your back pocket. I was so used to walking down the street and having the young guys passing by at least give me a flicker of a look. But once you're over 40, you become invisible. You're a brick in the building, and it's sad.
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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
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I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'
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There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
