Jim Evans Quotes
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
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If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
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I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.
