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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If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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I don't think about taking risks anymore because there aren't any risks to take.
