James William Middleton Quotes
I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
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I see so many fools in this world that sometimes I could just go home and cry about what people do to themselves Hey, wake up, wake up, look here! Think a minute, think a minute. This is your life! You got, what, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years here, and you gonna be gone.'
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
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Many change initiatives are poorly thought out, and rolled out prematurely. Others are genuinely good ideas but the proponents underestimate the amount of time needed to make the change. And, I agree, true change usually requires people giving something up and so resistance is pretty well guaranteed for any meaningful change.
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I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.
