Jim Kelly Quotes
There are things that you think about in your life that you're proud of, some things that you're not proud of.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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You have to open up on stage.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.
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It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of what I may be experiencing in my life spiritually. It is really hard in the face of people who don't get it, but what do you do?
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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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Just remember, it all started with a mouse.
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There are things that you think about in your life that you're proud of, some things that you're not proud of.
