Jim Parrack Quotes
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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I was very rebellious.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.
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One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.
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In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.
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I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.
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I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.
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My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
