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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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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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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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
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The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own.
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Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.
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Fighting the ongoing war in your day-to-day life, everybody has their battle going on that nobody else knows about.
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You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
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Is n’t God upon the ocean Just the same as on the land?
