Jim Hodges Quotes
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
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I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
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I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
