James Tate Quotes
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.
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I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.
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What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.
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When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.
James Tate
