James Woods Quotes
My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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Dream and you shall become.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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I don't want to get fat.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
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I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
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My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.
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Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
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My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
