James Young Quotes
There is absolutely no doubt that I am a more mature individual and Tommy Shaw is a more mature individual and that we learned a lot.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.
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I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.
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There is absolutely no doubt that I am a more mature individual and Tommy Shaw is a more mature individual and that we learned a lot.
