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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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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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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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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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The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
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The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.
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Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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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.
