Jim Coleman Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
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I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
