James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
I don't think about taking risks anymore because there aren't any risks to take.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.
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I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity towards Lana, I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience
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'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.
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I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.
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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
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I love a good piece of pizza. I love a good hamburger. If I don't let myself have those things, there's going to be a week where I just go off the deep end and eat nothing but that.
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Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.
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If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.
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I don't think about taking risks anymore because there aren't any risks to take.
