Jim Parrack Quotes
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
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The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.
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The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
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My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.
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The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.
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I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
