James Whistler Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
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Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
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Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
