James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
For me, 'Evil Urges' was like a video game. If you play 'Super Mario Brothers,' there's a level where it's like a snowscape, and then there's a level where it's a desert and a level that's like a jungle.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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For me, 'Evil Urges' was like a video game. If you play 'Super Mario Brothers,' there's a level where it's like a snowscape, and then there's a level where it's a desert and a level that's like a jungle.
