Jim Sturgess Quotes
Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.
Quotes to Explore
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.
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We only know how to lose and be lost.
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I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.
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Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.
