Jim Beaver Quotes
Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.
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We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
