James Watkins Quotes
If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.
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I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
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Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
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As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.
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We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
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It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
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The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.
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If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.
