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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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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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 wish it to be thoroughly under stood that it is Mr. Seurat, an artist of great worth, who has been the first to conceive the idea of applying the scientific theory after making a profound study of it. I have only followed, like my confreres, the example set by Seurat.
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I'm going to be that little old lady that's just, like, walking around and just, like, full of energy, probably with bright red hair or something crazy.
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
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There are only two classes - first class and no class.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.
