James Woods Quotes
I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
Quotes to Explore
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.
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Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
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I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.
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Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.
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Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.
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I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
