Jamie Lawson Quotes
I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I would like to direct.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.
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If I get stuck doing comic-book films for the rest of my life, I'll be really happy.
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Music is so huge to soccer, to my life, to working out. I usually have headphones when I'm cleaning the house or making dinner.
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I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
