Jim Parsons Quotes
My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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You know, you almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore. Ellen Degeneres
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You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?
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My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.
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The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.
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My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.
