James T. Farrell Quotes
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
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Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.
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I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director what my feelings are and what I would like to do. He accepts what I say or discusses it or destroys it. Eventually, we have to find a compromise.
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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
