Jim Parrack Quotes
If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.
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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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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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To me, nature always appears more unbalanced than Gary Busey with a clogged Eustachian tube.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.
