James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!
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No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful . . .
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.
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My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.
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Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
