Jim Beaver Quotes
'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
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Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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To write, you need to find what you love.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.
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The apostates think that everybody is wrong but themselves.
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Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.
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'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.
