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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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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The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
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Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.
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I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.
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College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. I actually met a guy who was a songwriter, which I didn't realize was a real job.
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'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.
