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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I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.
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The invention process is a great exercise for kids. It compels them to define an actual problem, formulate an original solution, develop a product, and share the results or products with their friends and peers.
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Colors were dynamite for us.
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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.
