James Woods Quotes
Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
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The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.
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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
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Honesty is hard work.
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As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?
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Because of who I am, when I sit at a poker table, I meet people who engage me in conversation, not only about poker, but also about the movie business and about the world of celebrities.
