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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The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
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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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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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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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I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
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I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.
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Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
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In my 30s, I became more open to music other than country or bluegrass.
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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.
