James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
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On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and make sure that these people get along. But on the low budget side of things, I have to trust my gut that when I cast these people, the various elements are going to play together.
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Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.
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When I was a kid, people reached out and gave me a chance.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
