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.

Jim Parrack

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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.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Comedy
  • Stories
  • Fearless

• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • Person
  • English

• It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Long
  • You
  • Possible

• I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Church
  • Bible

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• 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.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Different
  • Art

• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Real
  • View
  • Point Of View

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• 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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Worry
  • Doing
  • Find

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Game

• I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

  

  Jim Cantalupo
  • Up
  • Moving

• I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Team

• I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.

  

  Masi Oka
  • People
  • Road
  • Appreciation

• My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Author

• 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.

  

  Jim Parrack
  • People
  • Life
  • Why