James Thomas Fields Quotes
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.
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Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.
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To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.
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Is n’t God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?
