Jim Sturgess Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
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Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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My wife is very supportive.
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I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
