James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
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I remember this song by Clay Walker that came out in the '90s called 'This Woman and This Man,' and it was about breaking up, loss, the pain of moving on, and my parents were just getting divorced at the time, so I listened to it over and over again.
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I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.
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I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
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It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
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The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.
