Jim Parsons Quotes
The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.
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Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'
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I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.
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Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
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I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.
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I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
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Who Am I?
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.
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I know from another pulsar astronomer who won the Nobel that you get no peace. You're asked about every subject under the sun. It quite wrecks your life.
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The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
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The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
