Jamie Bell Quotes
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
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I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.
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Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.
