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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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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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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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.
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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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The most important thing you can do for yourself is get an education. Learn, listen, and respond. You have to study and practice to get better at your craft and to widen your skill set.
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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.
