James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
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Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità .
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I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.
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I don't like the word 'juggling' or 'work-life balance.' You prioritize.
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Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
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I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
