Jim Hodges Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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To survive is to win.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
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It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.
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I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It's an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.
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Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.
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To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
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Most people think I have a lot of fun and that I'm a pretty good driver but they don't take my driving all that seriously.
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Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
