Jim Sturgess Quotes
I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
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I am not honest.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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You never forget where you come from.
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I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.
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There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
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National defense through war always involves some degree of national defeat. This paradox has been with us from the very beginning of our republic. Militarization in defense of freedom reduces the freedom of the defenders. There is a fundamental inconsistency between war and freedom.
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Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled.
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
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You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
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Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.
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I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
