Jim Parsons Quotes
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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Of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.
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I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.
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The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.
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I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.
