Jamie Bell Quotes
I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
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It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.
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I spend a lot of my downtime studying different businesses and learning from a lot of entrepreneurs when I'm not playing football. They can help me evaluate different ventures to see if they'll work. I was aggressive with my initial investments, trying to hit a homerun each time. But now, I'm stepping back and being more patient, giving them due diligence.
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I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
