James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.
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I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
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There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
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There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power.
