Jim Sturgess Quotes
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.
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We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.
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Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.
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I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
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Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
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I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile
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I never met Paul McCartney.
