Jim Beaver Quotes
I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or had comparably great material, but as a body of work, playing Ellsworth tops anything else in my lifetime.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music.
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Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or had comparably great material, but as a body of work, playing Ellsworth tops anything else in my lifetime.
