Jim Barksdale Quotes
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I will run against anybody.
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
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I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
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I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
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After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
