Jim Parsons Quotes
Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
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The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.
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You never get every job you want.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Through my life, I do want to inspire others.
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Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.
