Jim Parsons Quotes
I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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To be alive at all is so crazy, to experience the wide spectrum of feelings and emotions is so wild, but we have nothing else to compare it to, so it becomes normal.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.
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I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
