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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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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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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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
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When you don't sleep, you start to hallucinate, and that's not good.
James Tate
