James Watkins Quotes
Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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There is too little courtship in the world.
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More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
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I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.
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Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
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I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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These days I'm pretty much a businessman.
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When vision failsDirection is lost.When direction is lostPurpose may be forgotten. When purpose if forgottenEmotion rules alone.When emotion rules alone,Destruction...destruction.
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As we develop our energy policies in the United States to generate our energy clean, then I think we're going to really move to a world that all of us want, and that is a sustainable future.
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This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
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The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.
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Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.
