James Watkins Quotes
Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
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I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.
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It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
