James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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We just here to do our job.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.
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I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.
