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 think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.
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They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
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There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.
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When people reproach us, they only increase their own failings even as they are disclaiming them.
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Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.
