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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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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It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.
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If it wasn't for the Porcaro brothers, I don't know where I'd be right now. My life would be completely different.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised.
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'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.
