Jim Gilmore Quotes
It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
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Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.
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Paul here is unhappy because unhappiness is second nature to him but more particularly because he has not the faintest idea of how to bring about his heart's desire. And I am unhappy because nothing is happening. Four people in four corners, moping, like tramps in Beckett, and myself in the middle, wasting time, being wasted by time.
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If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.
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I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
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It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.
