James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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Bleeding Ponytail: An elderly sold out baby boomer who pines for hippie or pre-sellout days.
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I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
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My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
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I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.
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Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
