Brian d'Arcy James Quotes

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

Brian d'Arcy James

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• I never pursued being 'famous.'

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Being Famous

• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • She
  • American

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • America
  • University

• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Play
  • Like
  • Story

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

  

  Vince Cable
  • Job
  • Future
  • Chance

• I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Working

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Believe
  • American
  • Dream

• Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • You
  • Friendship
  • Courtesy

• I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Industry
  • Image

• It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Science
  • Dad

• There is an inalienable law. Whenever a character on screen pities himself, the audience stops pitying him. They will cry so long as the character doesn't.

  

  David Seltzer
  • Long
  • Character
  • Law

• One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

  

  Jessye Norman
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  • Growing
  • Reading

• 'I wonder that all things seem to be from hell these days: dates, jobs, parties, weather .... Could the situation be that we no long believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Home
  • Stage

• I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
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