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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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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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I don't think LVMH will want to significantly change the strategy of Loro Piana, and I don't think that they would have bought it otherwise.
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I don’t want Salman Khan to be remembered as a star, actor. That is not my priority in life.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it's fantastic, but what I realized later was there's technology, and there's people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.
Biz Stone -
Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.
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Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
